Introduction To dPhoto

dPhoto manages, displays, and prints digital photographs in a variety of formats and sizes, from thumbnails (“index” prints) to full-size prints.  Features include selection, arrangement, and rotation of pictures on the printed page; searching for pictures by file name or associated description; and renaming of picture files.

dPhoto also offers extensive editing features such as cropping, scaling, optimizing contrast, adjusting saturation, balancing color, and adjusting gamma settings.  dPhoto offers tools for analyzing photos, correcting color, eliminating redeye, reducing blemishes and noise, adjusting color mix, and sharpening.

Use the text feature to rotate, scale, and edit rich text over the image with a Wordpad-style interface.  Use the cloning tool to "clone" out unwanted spots, shadows and objects with just a couple of clicks.  Create multiple copies of an object - turn a tree into a forest - using the stamp tool.  Apply digital paint onto images using stock and custom brushes in any imaginable shape.  Manipulate images with a variety of digital darkroom effects using brushes and masking tools such as a magic wand.

From dPhoto you can assemble slide shows for onscreen viewing, and print photos in a variety of arrangements and sizes.

dPhoto is like a digital “One-Hour Photo”, enabling you to view, print, do routine management, and make simple corrections on large numbers of digital images very quickly and easily.  But in addition dPhoto offers the power of the most expensive image editing software, giving you the capability of improving marginal pictures nearer to professional technical standards.

dPhoto fills the disappointment gap between low end shareware, generally weak in color correction, and high end digital prepress software, which is expensive, difficult to use, and very weak in image file management.  You don’t have to understand digital prepress concepts to use dPhoto.


Tao Of dPhoto
The Tao Of dPhoto

dPhoto was inspired by one of the most amazing “how to” books ever written, PROFESSIONAL PHOTOSHOP 6, THE CLASSIC GUIDE TO COLOR CORRECTION by Dan Margulis (John Wiley & Sons).  The cover would have you believe that this is a book about digital prepress color correction, which is like saying that Leonardo da Vinci was a medical illustrator.  Margulis’ real agenda is to teach us to look critically at digital images, to understand what we see, and finally how to reason from our understanding toward an image we can take pride in.

Photographers often face disappointing results from their cameras, film or digital, and Margulis tells us why the camera saw something different and shows us how to get to what we saw.

Best of all, this book is a fun read about a subject that’s hardly a great party topic, written with wit, and illustrated with impressive corrections of some profoundly discouraging original images.  If this book doesn’t send you back to your images with excitement and confidence, you need to read the book again.  Which is not a bad idea anyway, come to think of it.

Correcting a digital image is similar, in many ways, to solving a crossword puzzle.  If you know what values some key colors in your image ought to have, you are already a long way toward solution.  With a little more effort, you can “pop” the subject out of the background or put that professional snap and sizzle into your images.


Guide To dPhoto For The
Harried And Hurried

Quick Perk Up And Print:  Your digital camera is producing digital images with acceptable color balance for your purposes but the images are a little flat or washed out and you want reasonable 4” x 6” prints in a hurry.

•	Load your pictures onto the thumbnail pane.

•	Choose Select All from the Select menu.

•	From the Script menu, select Contrast Optimize.

•	Left-click on the toolbar Print button on the upper right.

•	Make sure your photo printer is ready to go and is listed on the title bar (use Print Setup from the Print menu).

•	Left-click on the Print All Pages button (at the bottom, third button from left).

•	Take your finished prints out of the printer tray.

Correcting Color For Scanned Images:  Your scanner is producing scanned images that are consistently too blue (or red, or green).  You want to correct a lot of scanned pictures quickly and easily.

•	Load your pictures onto the thumbnail pane.  Left-click on one of the pictures to select it.

•	Select Gamma Adjust from the Adjust dialog, accessed from the Edit menu.

•	Left-click the Black Point button.  On the image, Left-click on something that you know should be black (for example, very deep shadow).

•	Left-click the White Point button.  On the image, Left-click on something that you know should be white (cloud, snow, or white shirt).

•	If the resulting image seems too dark or light, grab the middle vertical control point line on the upper histogram and move it right if too dark, or left if too light.

•	or  If the picture contains skin tones, Left-click the Color Match button (the gray dot), then Left-click its color patch.  From the Color Pick dialog’s Color By Object dropdown list, select an appropriate skin tone.  Left-click the Match Current Sample button.  Select the Ellipse tool and draw an ellipse on skin.  Right-drag the ellipse to include more or less dark skin.  Fine tune the color using the Hue, Saturaction, and/or Value sliders.

•	Left-click on the Apply As Script Item button (the yellow lightning bolt).  Close the dialog.

•	From the Script menu, select Copy Selected Script.

•	Select all scanned thumbnails with the same problem.  From the Script menu, select Paste Copied Script Into Selected.

•	From the Script menu, select Save All Selected Scripts.

Creating A Contest Winner  You and your trusty digicam have captured a possible photo contest winner with killer subject and composition, but the image just doesn’t have that contest winning sizzle.  Forget that you are in a hurry, and study your image carefully.  The key to sizzle is that most of the available contrast range is devoted to the central subject of interest.  If your subject seems flat or washed out, while some relatively unimportant non-subjects seem to have more snap, use the method below.

•	Select your masterpiece-to-be on the thumbnail pane.

•	From the Edit menu select Color Correct Selected.

•	Left-click the Ellipse tool.  Draw a selection ellipse around as much of the central subject as you can manage without enclosing anything but the subject.  (The ellipse should be as big as possible but entirely inside the subject.)

•	On the graph at the left you should now have two cyan control lines which represent the range of tonal values in your subject.  From the control points at the left of the horizontal control lines, drag the upper control point up and the lower control point down.  This expands the tonal range of your subject while compressing the tonal range everywhere else.

What’s Off Color Here?  You know that the colors in your scanned portrait are off but you are having trouble figuring out what exactly is wrong.  Select the picture on the thumbnail pane, and Left-click the Picture Analysis button on the top toolbar.  If the hue readings on the subject’s face are in the range of 345 to 355 (they should be 10 to 25 for Caucasian skin) then your image has a blue cast.


Registering Your Copy Of dPhoto

dPhoto is offered as a shareware product from TechView Corporation.  We hope that your introductory trial of dPhoto has been useful and satisfying.  If so, we ask you to register your copy of dPhoto.  A registered copy of dPhoto comes with email support, bug fixes, and the next two upgrades when they come out.  The price for a registered copy is as follows.

Registered copy of dPhoto and .PDF documentation sent via email	$35 per copy

You may register at our web site, www.trydphoto.com, paying by credit card.

In addition, you may order the following items directly from us.

$10 per CD

Copy of printed documentation sent via U.S. mail	$20 per copy

To order the demo on CD or printed documentation, send your name, your company name (if applicable), your email address, and a check made out to TechView Corporation, to:

TechView Corporation

200 North Greensboro St., Suite D-8

Carrboro, North Carolina  27510

We hope you enjoy using dPhoto, and we thank you for your support.


Overview
dPhoto Main Window

The dPhoto main window includes:

•	Menu Bar, under title bar

•	Toolbar, under menu bar

•	Folder pane, under toolbar on left

•	File/blowup pane, under folder pane on left

•	Thumbnail pane, under toolbar on right

•	Status bar at bottom of window

•	When printing, the Print Preview dialog appears.


Menu Bar

The menu bar (under the title bar) contains the following menus, which are illustrated below:

•	File menu

•	Edit menu, which includes three pullout menus

•	Search menu

•	Rename menu

•	Select menu

•	Rotate menu

•	Options menu

•	Slides menu

File Menu

Pick Selected   	Put pictures on thumbnail pane; selected from camera card or file pane

Pick/Append   	Add pictures to thumbnail pane; selected from camera card or file pane

Discard Selected  	Remove selected thumbnails from thumbnail pane

Discard All  	Clear all pictures from thumbnail pane

Copy/Rename Selected to Folder...  	Copy and rename selected thumbnails into folder, in one step

Copy Selected to Folder  	Copy selected thumbnails into folder

Move Selected to Folder  	Move selected thumbnails from one folder to another

Delete Selected from Folder  	Delete selected thumbnails from folder

Save Selected As...  	Save selected thumbnails to user-entered file names

New Folder...   	Create new folder

Rename Folder...   	Rename folder selected in folder pane

Copy Folders...   	Copy folders selected in folder pane

Refresh Folders/Files   	Refresh the display in the folder and file/blowup panes

Print Setup...  	Access print setup dialog

Preview/Print... 	Select print options and print

Open Configuration File...	Open configuration file for main window settings

Save Configuration File...	Save current configuration of main window to file

Save Configuration On Exit	Save position and size of panes within main window upon exit

Exit	Exit dPhoto

Edit Menu

Retouch Selected	Select from Retouch dialog actions to edit selected thumbnail(s)

Adjust Selected	Select from Adjust dialog actions to edit selected thumbnail(s)

Wand Selected	Select from Wand dialog actions to edit selected thumbnail(s)

Text Selected...	Add text to selected thumbnaill(s)

Analyze...	Analyze color information for selected thumbnail(s)

Rotate Selected Arbitrarily...	Rotate to specified angle selected thumbnail(s)

Perspective Correct Selected...	Correct perspective for selected thumbnail(s)

Color Correct Selected...Make color corrections for selected thumbnail(s)

Edit Menu -- Retouch Actions

Retouch...	Retouch selected thumbnail(s) using brush

Clone...	Clone part of image to another part for selected thumbnail(s)

Stamp...	Stamp part of image onto another part for selected thumbnail(s)

Redeye...	Reduce redeye for selected thumbnail(s)

Noise Reduce...	Reduce noise in specified area, for selected thumbnail(s)

Contrast...	Adjust contrast for selected thumbnail(s) using brush

Saturation...	Adjust saturation for selected thumbnail(s) using brush

Color Shift...	Shift color in specified area, for selected thumbnail(s)

Color Mix...	Adjust color mix for selected thumbnail(s) using brush

Burn...	Burn for selected thumbnail(s) using brush

Dodge...	Dodge for selected thumbnail(s) using brush

Blur...	Blur selected thumbnail(s) using brush

Sharpen...	Sharpen selected thumbnail(s) using brush

Edit Menu -- Adjust Actions

Contrast Optimize...	Optimize contrast overall for selected thumbnail(s)

Gamma...	Optimize contrast and color for selected thumbnail(s)

Crop...	Crop selected thumbnail(s)

Scale...	Scale selected thumbnail(s)

Saturation...	Make colors more vivid overall for selected thumbnail(s)

Color Balance...	Balance colors of selected thumbnail(s)

Blur...	Blur overall for selected thumbnail(s)

Sharpen...	Sharpen overall for selected thumbnail(s)

Edit Menu -- Wand Actions

Masked Paint...	Paint through the selected mask, for selected thumbnail(s)

Contrast...	Optimize contrast in the selected mask, for selected thumbnail(s)

Saturation...	Make colors in the select mask more vivid, for selected thumbnail(s)

Color Shift...	Shift color in the selected mask, for selected thumbnail(s)

Noise Reduce...	Reduce noise in the selected mask, for selected thumbnail(s)

Color Mix...	Adjust color mix in the selected mask, for selected thumbnail(s)

Burn...	Burn in the selected mask, for selected thumbnail(s)

Dodge...	Dodge in the selected mask, for selected thumbnail(s)

Blur...	Blur in the selected mask, for selected thumbnail(s)

Sharpen...	Sharpen in the selected mask, for selected thumbnail(s)

Search Menu

File Names Like (subdirectories)...	Search file names in selected folder and its subfolders

Descriptions Like (subdirectories)...	Search picture descriptions in selected folder and its subfolders

Rename Menu

Define Rename Pattern...	Enter and edit renaming patterns

Define Rename Formula...	Enter and edit renaming patterns

Copy/Rename Selected...	Rename selected thumbnails and copy to new location

Rename Selected...	Rename selected thumbnails

Describe Selected...	Add descriptions for selected thumbnails

Select Menu

Select None	De-select all pictures selected on thumbnail pane

Select All	Select all pictures on thumbnail pane

Select None	De-select pictures selected on thumbnail pane, and select unselected pictures

Rotate Menu

Rotate Selected 90° Clockwise	Rotate selected thumbnails 90° clockwise

Rotate Selected 90° Counterclockwise	Rotate selected thumbnails 90° counterclockwise

Rotate Selected 180°	Rotate selected thumbnails 180° clockwise

Rotate Selected Arbitrarily	Rotate selected thumbnails arbitrarily

Flip Selected Horizontal	Flip selected thumbnails horizontally

Flip Selected Vertical	Flip selected thumbnails horizontally

Save Selected Rotations/Flips	Save rotations and flips as part of pictures, for selected thumbnails

Save All Rotations/Flips	Save all rotations and flips as part of pictures

Script Menu

Clear Selected Scripts	Clear scripts for selected thumbnail(s)

Clear All Scripts	Clear scripts from all thumbnails

Copy Selected Script	Copy script of first selected thumbnail

Paste Copied Script Into Selected	Paste copied script into selected thumbnail(s)

Paste Copied Script Into All	Paste copied script into all thumbnails

Paste Prepared Script Into Selected	Paste prepared script into selected thumbnail(s)

Paste Prepared Script Into All	Paste prepared script into all thumbnails

Delete Script Items From Selected	Delete individual script items for selected thumbnail(s)

Save Selected Scripts	Save scripts for selected thumbnail(s)

Save All Scripts	Save scripts for all thumbnails

Contrast Optimize	Contrast optimize selected thumbnail(s)

People	Apply default corrections for pictures of people, for selected thumbnail(s)

Buildings/Machines	Apply default corrections for pictures of buildings or machines, for selected thumbnail(s)

Options Menu

Rotate Blowup 90° Clockwise	Rotate expanded picture display 90° clockwise

Rotate Blowup 90° Counterclockwise	Rotate expanded picture display 90° counterclockwise

Zoom View	Show selected thumbnails with full zoom and script display capabilities

Camera Information...	Display camera information (if available)

Picture Histogram...	Display histogram for selected thumbnail

Picture Analysis...	Analyze color information for selected thumbnail(s)

Thumbnail List...	Display complete picture file data

Save Clipboard Image To File...	Save image on clipboard to a file

Convert Grayscale Image To RGB File...	Convert black & white photo to color capable

Create Empty Image File...	Create empty image file

Load Snapshots Of Selected	Load all snapshots for selected thumbnail(s) onto thumbnail pane

Save Selected As Snapshots	Save selected thumbnails as snapshots

Restore From Selected Snapshot	Restore selected snapshot as original

Set Background Color...	Set background color

Register...	Register dPhoto in your name

Slides Menu

Open Slide Show...	Open an existing slide show

Append Slide Show...	Append to slide show selected thumbnail(s)

Set Slide Times...	Set slide times

Save Slide Show (all)...	Save all pictures on thumbnail pane as slide show

Save Slide Show (selected)...	Save only selected thumbnails as slide show

Copy Slide Show (all)...	Copy all pictures on thumbnail pane as slide show

Copy Slide Show (selected)...	Copy only selected thumbnails as slide show

Display Interval...	Set display interval time for each slide

Display Full Window	Select this option to show full window instead of small blowup

Continuous Display	Select this option to continue display from last back to first slide in show

Start Slide Show	Start slide show display

Stop Slide Show	Stop slide show display


Folder Pane

The folder pane is under the toolbar, on the left.  From the folder pane you can select folders.  For the selected folder, file information is displayed in the file/blowup pane below the folder pane, for all JPEG and JFIF files with the extension .JPG or .JIF and all TIFF files with the extension .TIF; OR sub-folders of the selected folder  are displayed.

From the folder pane, you can select folders and add their contents to the thumbnail pane:

•	Left-click a folder or folder name to select it and display files in the file/blowup pane.

•	Right-click a folder to show sub-folders in the file/blowup pane.

•	[Shift]-Left-click a folder to select it and put all of its pictures onto the thumbnail pane.  (All current thumbnails are removed from the pane first.)

•	Select a folder, then Left-click the Pick/Append Selected Files button on the tool bar to add all of its pictures to the thumbnail pane; OR [Shift]-Left-click to add and also select its pictures.

To display files in the file/blowup pane:  Left-click a folder or folder name.

To display sub-folders in the file/blowup pane:  Right-click a folder or folder name.

To put a folder's pictures onto the thumbnail pane:  [Shift]-Left-click a folder or folder name.

To append pictures and also select them on the thumbnail pane:  Left-click the folder to select it.  [Shift]-Left-click the Pick/Append Selected Files button on the toolbar to add all pictures in the folder to the thumbnail pane.  You may wish to use this feature as follows: if you want to add to the thumbnail pane only one or a few pictures in a selected folder, [Shift]-Left-click the Pick/Append button so that they are selected when added.  [Ctrl]-Left-click on the pictures you want to keep; then Left-click Discard Selected on the tool bar to discard the other (selected) pictures.

To refresh the folder pane display:  Select Refresh Files/Folders from the File menu.

To copy an entire folder to another location:  Left-drag the folder to the new location.

To move an entire folder to another location:  [Shift]-Left-drag the folder to the new location.

To rename a folder:  Right-click on the folder and select Rename Folder; OR highlight the folder to rename and select Rename Folder from the File menu.  The Rename Folder dialog appears.  Edit the folder's name and Left-click OK.

Using Aliases

dPhoto enables you to create aliases, which are “nicknames” directing you to a folder.  Rather than navigating the folder tree, you can select an easily understood and aptly-named alias to go directly to a folder.  You can define aliases that are meaningful.

Menu Of Folder Pane Functions

Right-clicking on a folder in the folder pane gives you a context menu with the following functions.  NOTE:  The function applies to the folder which is clicked on (regardless of which folder is selected).  If you Right-click to the right of the folder names, the function applies to the selected folder, except for Refresh which applies to the entire pane.

Jump To Alias	From the alias list, select an aliased directory to go to

Alias Folder	Create an alias for the folder

Delete Aliases	Delete aliases from the alias list

Find Matches	Shows more information about folders (see options below)

New Folder	Create a new folder

Rename Folder	Rename the folder

Delete Folder	Select a folder to delete

Folder List	Show folder’s sub-folders in the file/blowup pane

Refresh	Refresh the display of all folders in the pane

Preferences	Set folder pane preferences (see options below)

Find Matches has the following options.  Matches are determined by the wildcard specification to select file types, which appears at the far left on the status bar.

Folder’s Open Subfolders	Shows the number of pictures (in parenthesis after the folder name) for open subfolders

All Of Folder’s Subfolders	Shows the number of pictures (in parenthesis after the folder name) for all subfolders

Clear All Matches	Clears all matches

Show Most Recent Match	For matched folders, gives the date of the most recent file in the folders

Preferences has the following options.

Color Visited Folders	Show visited folders in color

Auto-Select New Media	If checked (as it is initially), when you put in the camera card or plug the camera into the USB, you jump to that folder

Prompt To Select New Media	If checked, when you put in the camera card or plug the camera into the USB, you are prompted to jump to that folder

NOTE: Only one of the new media options can be on at a time.


File/Blowup Pane

Below the folder pane is a pane which displays either the picture files in the selected folder, OR a blowup of the last selected picture, OR sub-folders in the selected folder.

To display files in the file/blowup pane:  From the status bar at the bottom of the window, Left-click the second section, # files, # selected.  OR, In the folder pane, Left-click a folder or folder name.

To display a blowup in the file/blowup pane:  From the status bar, Left-click the third section, # thumbnails, # selected, to display a blowup of the last selected picture.

To display sub-folders in the file/blowup pane:  In the folder pane, Right-click a folder or folder name.

When Files Are Displayed

For the selected folder, file information is displayed, for all JPEG and JFIF files with the extension .JPG or .JIF and all TIFF files with the extension .TIF, including the file name, file type, date file was last modified, and file size.  You can select picture files to:

Put on the thumbnail pane.  Select files, then use Pick Selected from the File menu, or its button.  This clears the current content of the thumbnail pane and places the selected pictures on the thumbnail pane.

Add to the thumbnail pane.  Select files, then use Pick/Append Selected from the File menu, or its button.  This adds the selected pictures to the current content of the thumbnail pane.  NOTE: Left-click on its record selector to select a file.  Select a group of files as described below.

Put on or add to the thumbnail pane and also select added pictures.  Select files, then [Shift]-Left-click the Pick/Append Selected button on the tool bar.

To select a group of files:

•	Left-click on its record selector to highlight the first file in a range of files.

•	[Shift]-Left-click on its record selector to highlight the last file in the range.  All files between these two selected files will be highlighted, indicating that they are selected.  NOTE: When you complete a range selection using [Shift]-Left-click, previous selections, if any, are cancelled.

•	[Ctrl]-Left-click on its record selector to select (or de-select) an individual file to add it to (or remove it from) your selection.

•	To clear all selections, Left-click on any record selector to select that single file, then [Ctrl]-Left-click on that same record selector to de-select it.

To adjust the grid:  Position the cursor on the column header, on the vertical divider at the right edge of the column you wish to adjust.  The double-arrow Adjust Cursor appears.  Left-drag to adjust the grid as desired.  NOTE: The grid adjustment remains in effect for the current session.

To sort the display of files:  Left-click on one of the following:

Name	To sort by name from A - Z (the initial setting); Left-click again on this option to sort from Z - A.

Type	To sort by file extension from A - Z; Left-click again on this option for Z - A.

Last Modified	To sort by file modification date and time, from most to least recent; Left-click again on this option for least to most recent.

Size	To sort by size, from smallest to largest; Left-click again on this option to sort from largest to smallest.

The file sort option remains in effect for the current session.

To refresh the file display:  Select Refresh Folders/Files from the File menu.

To switch from displaying files to displaying a blowup:  From the status bar, Left-click the third section, # thumbnails, # selected, to display a blowup of the last selected picture.

To switch back to displaying files:  From the status bar, Left-click the second section, # files, # selected.  OR, In the folder pane, Left-click to the left of the folders (not on any folder name).

To drag pictures onto the thumbnail pane:  Select one or more picture files, and Left-drag onto the thumbnail pane.  They will be appended to any pictures already on the thumbnail pane.

When A Picture Is Displayed

When you select a picture on the thumbnail pane, an enlargement is shown in the file/blowup pane.  The last selected picture is displayed.

To expand picture in blowup pane to fill window:   Left-click on the blowup to expand the picture to fill the entire dPhoto window.  Left-click the expanded blowup to return to the main dPhoto window.

To rotate picture display:  If the selected picture is rotated such that its displayed size (in the blowup pane or expanded blowup pane) is not optimized, you can specify that its display be rotated 90° clockwise or counterclockwise.  NOTE: "Optimize" in this context means that the picture is rotated such that its displayed size is as large as possible in the given pane.  From the Options menu, select Rotate Blowup 90° Clockwise or Rotate Blowup 90° Counterclockwise.  NOTE: This option does not change rotation settings when printing, or for display on the thumbnail pane.

To switch from displaying a blowup to displaying files:  From the status bar, Left-click the second section, # files, # selected.  OR, In the folder pane, Left-click to the left of the folders (not on any folder name).

To switch back to displaying a blowup:  From the status bar, Left-click the third section, # thumbnails, # selected, to display a blowup of the last selected picture.

When Folders Are Displayed

Folders, rather than file names, can be displayed in the file/blowup pane.

To show sub-folders in the file/blowup pane:  In the folder pane, Right-click a folder or folder name.  NOTE: To access the most recent folders for backup or review, Left-click the Last Modified header in the file/blowup pane to sort folders by date.

To display contents of folder:  In the file/blowup pane, Left-click on a folder to display its contents in the file/blowup pane.

To select sub-folders to copy:  When folders are displayed in the file/blowup pane, Left-click its record selector (you can use [Ctrl] or [Shift]) to select one or more folders).  Use Copy Folders from the File menu to backup or copy the selected folders to other locations.

When folders are displayed in the file/blowup pane:

•	They can be selected for copying in the same way that picture files are selected (see WHEN FILES ARE DISPLAYED above).

•	The grid can be adjusted, the folders sorted, and the display refreshed (see WHEN FILES ARE DISPLAYED above).


Thumbnail Pane

The thumbnail pane is under the toolbar, on the right.  You can place pictures from folders onto the thumbnail pane (see FOLDER PANE and FILE/BLOWUP PANE above) for display and selection for various functions.  Pictures on the thumbnail pane are referred to as “thumbnails.”

From the thumbnail pane, you can select pictures to:

Copy/rename to another folder.  Select pictures on the thumbnail pane.  In the folder pane, select the folder in which to copy them.  Select Copy/Rename Selected to Folder from the File menu, or Left-click its button.  This copies the selected pictures into the selected folder.  The Rename Selected Pictures dialog appears, where you can rename pictures as described in TO RENAME SELECTED PICTURES below.  NOTE: When you use this feature, the copies made have new names (the original names are not affected).

•	Copy to another folder.  Left-drag selected thumbnails into another folder.

OR

Select pictures on the thumbnail pane.  In the folder pane, select the folder in which to copy them.  Select Copy Selected to Folder from the File menu or Left-click its button.  This copies the selected pictures into the selected folder.

•	Move to another folder.  [Shift]-Left-drag selected thumbnails into another folder.

OR

Select pictures on the thumbnail pane.  In the folder pane, select the folder into which to move them.  Select Move Selected to Folder from the File menu, or Left-click its button.  This moves the selected pictures into the selected folder.

•	Delete from a folder.  Left-drag selected thumbnails into the Windows Recycle Bin.

OR

Select pictures on the thumbnail pane.  Select Delete Selected from Folder from the File menu, or Left-click its button.  This deletes the selected pictures from their folder, and moves them to the Recycle Bin.

•	Display in the file/blowup pane.  The last picture selected is displayed in this window.

Rotate thumbnail pane display.  Select pictures on the thumbnail pane to rotate.  Left-click the Rotate 90° Clockwise or the Rotate 90° Counterclockwise button,

OR select a rotation option from the Rotate menu (includes 180° rotation; do not use rotation to a specified angle).  NOTE: These options affect picture display only; use Save options on the Rotate menu to save rotations as part of the pictures.

Display in a zoom view window.  [Ctrl]-Right-click on a picture to see it with full zooming capabilities, OR Left-click the Zoom View button (see ZOOM VIEW FUNCTION).

•	Display camera information for.  [Shift]-Right-click on a picture to show its EXIF camera information (such as flash or not, ISO rating, and other information recorded by the camera).

•	Display its histogram.  [Alt]-Right-click on a picture to display its histogram with luminance values (see CONTRAST OPTIMIZE DIALOG).  Left-click on the Close icon to close the histogram.

Analyze picture color values.  Select the picture(s) to analyze.  Left-click the Picture Analysis button,  OR  select Picture Analysis... from the Options menu or Analyze... from the Edit menu.

Remove from the thumbnail pane.  Select the picture(s).  Left-click the Discard Selected button or select this option from the File menu; OR press the [Delete] key.  To clear the thumbnail pane entirely, [Shift]-Left-click the Discard Selected button or select Discard All from the File menu.  NOTE: This clears pictures from the thumbnail pane, but does not delete them from their folder.

•	Drag and drop for reordering, to change the order for a slide show, for example.

•	Drag and drop into TechEdit.  Select one or more pictures.  Left-drag from the thumbnail pane into TechEdit.  If a template is open in TechEdit, pictures will be automatically loaded into blueprint slots, in the order in which the pictures were selected.

•	Drag and drop to and from a Windows Explorer folder.  When Windows Explorer is open, you can drag copies of selected pictures from the thumbnail pane and drop them into a Windows folder; AND you can drag copies of selected pictures from a Windows folder onto the thumbnail pane.

Print.  See PRINTING IN DPHOTO below.

Selecting Pictures On The Thumbnail Pane

To select pictures by Left-clicking:

•	Left-click on a picture to select it.  An outline appears around the picture to indicate that it is selected.

•	Use [Ctrl]-Left-click to add to your selection, or [Shift]-Left-click to select a range of pictures, as described below.

•	Use [Ctrl]-Left-click to toggle selection.

•	To de-select all selected pictures, Left-click on a single picture to select it, then [Ctrl]-Left-click on the same picture to de-select it.  (Or, select Select None from the Select menu.)

To select a group of pictures by Left-clicking:

•	Left-click on the first picture in a range of pictures.

•	[Shift]-Left-click on the last picture in the range.  All pictures between these two selected pictures will be selected.  NOTE: When you complete a range selection using [Shift]-Left-click, previous selections, if any, are cancelled.

•	[Ctrl]-Left-click to select (or de-select) an individual picture to add it to (or remove it from) your selection.

•	To clear all selections, Left-click a single picture, then [Ctrl]-Left-click on that same picture to de-select it.  OR, select Select None from the Select menu.

To select all pictures:  Select Select All from the Select menu.

To de-select all pictures:  Select Select None from the Select menu.

To de-select all selected pictures, and select all unselected pictures:  Select Invert Selection from the Select menu.

Dragging Pictures On The Thumbnail Pane

When there are one or more pictures selected:

•	If you begin Left-dragging within the current selection, the selection is moved as you drag.

•	If you begin Left-dragging outside of the current selection, the picture on which you began the drag operation is moved.

•	Right-dragging from anywhere on the thumbnail pane drags the current selection.  HINT:  This feature is very useful when dragging long distances: make your selection, use the scroll bars to move to the desired drop area, and then Right-drag to the drop point.

NOTE:  The vertical red bar indicates where the selection will be dropped.

•	Left-dragging or Right-dragging moves the picture on which you began the drag operation.

When there are no pictures selected:

To drag and drop pictures to and from a Windows Explorer folder:  When Windows Explorer is open, you can drag copies of selected pictures from the thumbnail pane and drop them into a Windows folder; AND you can drag copies of pictures from a Windows folder onto the thumbnail pane.

Menu Of Thumbnail Functions

Right-clicking on a thumbnail gives you a context menu with the following functions.  NOTE: If the picture you Right-click on is selected, th ese functions apply to the selected picture(s).  If you Right-click on an unselected picture, your previous selection is discarded and the clicked-on picture is now selected.

Discard	Remove the selected thumbnail(s) from the thumbnail pane

Delete	Delete the selected thumbnail(s) from its folder and move it to the Recycle Bin

Retouch	Go to the Retouch dialog

Adjust	Go to the Adjust dialog

Wand	Go to the Wand dialog

Text	Go to the Text dialog

Camera Information	Go to Camera Information window (if information is available for your camera)

Zoom View	Go to Zoom View window and display the selected thumbnail(s)

Histogram	Go to Picture Analysis window and display the selected thumbnail(s)


Status Bar

The dPhoto status bar (at the bottom of the dPhoto main window) contains four sections, as described below.  You can drag the divider between sections to adjust their width.

•	At the far left are the wildcard specifications for the files that are displayed and that dPhoto is able to read.  You can edit these specifications to display files with other file extensions; however all files must be in the JPEG/JFIF or TIFF file format.  The default is *.TIF; *.JPG.

•	The next section to the right shows status information for files in the file/blowup pane: the number of files shown in the file pane, and the number of files selected in the file/blowup pane.

•	The third section shows status information for the thumbnail pane: the number of pictures on the thumbnail pane, and the number of pictures selected on the thumbnail pane.

•	The farthest right section gives the file name and date/time stamp for the last selected file.  Left-click on this section to display the thumbnail list, which gives complete file data for all files on the thumbnail pane; files which are selected on the thumbnail are are highlighted.

From the status bar at the bottom of the window, you can:

•	Left-click # files, # selected to display files in the file/blowup pane.

•	Left-click on # thumbnails, # selected to display a blowup of the selected picture in the file/blowup pane.

•	Left-click on the file name (in the farthest right section) to display the thumbnail list.


Rotating Pictures And Saving Rotations

You can rotate and flip pictures on the thumbnail pane.  Saving these rotations with the pictures can be done easily, with negligible affect on the original picture data.

Rotating And Flipping Pictures

To rotate selected pictures on the thumbnail pane display:  Select pictures on the thumbnail pane to rotate.

Left-click the Rotate 90° Clockwise or the Rotate 90° Counterclockwise button on the top toolbar.

OR

Select a rotation option from the Rotate menu:

•	Rotate Selected 90° Clockwise

•	Rotate Selected 90° Counterclockwise

•	Rotate Selected 180°

NOTE:  The Rotate Selected Arbitrarily option on the Rotate menu is an advanced editing function (see USING THE ADJUST DIALOG, ROTATING PICTURES TO A SPECIFIED ANGLE) and should not be used here.

To flip selected pictures on the thumbnail pane display:  Select pictures on the thumbnail pane to flip.

•	Flip Selected Horizontal

•	Flip Selected Vertical

NOTE: These options affect picture display only; use Save options on the Rotate menu to save rotations and flips as part of the pictures (see below).

Saving Rotations And Flips

Generally, to save rotations and flips, you would use the Save functions on the Rotate menu.  Saving rotations with pictures causes negligible loss of original image data.  You might use the Save Options dialog when you are saving other changes as well as rotations and flips.  You could also use this dialog to overwrite or make copies of your rotated pictures.  NOTE:  The rotations saved with the Rotate menu or Save Options dialog are the ones done on the thumbnail pane; arbitrary rotations must be saved at the Rotation dialog only, and cannot be saved using these functions.

To Save Rotations And Flips

1)	Make sure pictures you want to save are on the thumbnail pane, and rotated as desired.  You may select pictures for which to save rotations.

2)	To save rotations and/or flips for pictures currently selected on the thumbnail pane:  Select Save Selected Rotations/Flips from the Rotate menu.

To save rotations and/or flips for all pictures currently on the thumbnail pane:  Select Save All Rotations/Flips from the Rotate menu.

Rotations are saved.


Picture Loading Cataloguing And Archiving
Digital Picture Loading, Cataloguing
 And Archiving Process

Follow this procedure for handling your pictures with dPhoto.

1)	Insert camera memory card into your computer's memory card reader.

2)	Load the pictures from the card onto the thumbnail pane as follows.  In the folder pane, select the drive for the memory card.  Left-click the Pick Selected Files button, or select this option from the File menu.

3)	If the appropriate folder to contain the pictures exists, select that folder at the folder pane.  Otherwise, create a new folder to hold the pictures, using the New Folder button or New Folder from the File menu, and select that folder.

4)	Copy the pictures into the folder and rename them, by Left-clicking the Copy/Rename Selected button or selecting Copy/Rename Selected to Folder from the File menu.  Rename your pictures to more indicative names.

5)	From the thumbnail pane, select any picture(s) you want to delete from the folder.  Left-click the Delete Selected button or select Delete Selected from Folder from the File menu.

6)	Add descriptions to pictures, if desired.  To add descriptions to all pictures on the thumbnail pane, make sure no pictures are selected; OR, from the thumbnail pane, make a selection of pictures for which to add descriptions.  Left-click the Describe Selected button, or select this option from the Rename menu.  NOTE: Descriptions are saved within their picture files as JPEG comments or TIFF descriptions, becoming part of these pictures.

7)	Rotate pictures on the thumbnail, if desired, for better viewing.  (This rotation can be changed when printing.)  Select one or more pictures.  From the Rotate menu, choose one of these rotation options:

Rotate selected 90 degrees clockwise (has a button on the toolbar)

Rotate selected 90 degrees counterclockwise (has a button on the toolbar)

•	Rotate Selected 180°

•	Rotate selected arbitrarily

NOTE: To save these rotations with their pictures, select Save Selected Rotations/Flips from the Rotate menu.

8)	Specify printer and/or printer options, if necessary, by selecting Print Setup from the File menu.  NOTE: dPhoto "remembers" from session to session the printer you used last.

9)	Print pictures.  Select pictures to print from the thumbnail.  Left-click the Print Selected Pictures button, or select Preview/Print from the File menu.  You may select options at the Print Preview dialog.


Renaming Selected Pictures

The Rename feature enables you to easily and efficiently rename digital photos straight from the camera; or later if needed.

You can use a pattern to specify the part of the file name you wish to change; and you can use a formula to create unique file names which can include date information on which pictures can be sorted See OTHER DPHOTO FEATURES, DEFINING PATTERNS AND FORMULAS IN DPHOTO for information on how to define patterns and formulas for use at the Rename dialog.

To Rename Selected Pictures

1)	On the thumbnail pane, select pictures to rename.  If all pictures or no pictures are selected, all pictures appear for renaming.

2)	Left-click the Rename Selected button, or select Rename Selected from the Rename menu.  The Rename Selected Pictures dialog appears, displaying a list of selected pictures.

3)	At the top of the dialog are the following text entry boxes.  Entries in the first two text boxes are required in order for any global changes in file names to be made.  You may enter text into these boxes as follows:

•	Change Part Of File Name   Initially, this box shows the largest set of initial common characters for all selected picture file names.  You may edit this text.  This is the text that will be changed by the entry in the Change This Part To text box.

•	Change This Part To   In this text box, enter the replacement text for the text to be changed.  The proposed new name is displayed in the name section below the text boxes.  NOTE: An entry in the first text box is required in order to effect this change.  To make other global changes without changing this part of the name, make the replacement text identical to the text in the first text box; in other words, Change This Part To text should be the same as Change Part Of File Name text.  NOTE: If a formula is selected, this entry defines the value of the ChangeTo variable in the formula.

•	Number From   Initially this box shows the lowest number in the file names from the selected pictures.  Enter a number here to change where the numbering begins.  NOTE: Entries in the first two text boxes are required in order to effect this change.

•	File Type   Enter a three letter file extension to change all file extensions.  NOTE: Entries in the first two text boxes are required in order to effect this change.

•	Use Pattern   Select a pattern to specify the part of the file name to be changed.  The pattern defines the “Change Part Of File Name” entry.  You can create more than one pattern from which to select (use the dropdown list); or you can turn off UsePattern when it does not apply or isn’t needed (Left-click in the Use Pattern text box).  NOTE:  When a pattern is selected, any entry in “Change Part Of File Name” is ignored, and the remaining number in the file name is treated as the serial number of the file.  NOTE: Use Rename Pattern... from the Rename menu to enter patterns.

•	Use Formula   Select a formula to specify what will replace the changed part of the file name.  In the formula, ChangeTo is defined as the entry in the “Change This Part To” text box.  The formula is similar to a VBA expression and may contain VBA and dPhoto-specific variables (see VBA INTRINSIC FUNCTIONS for a list of built-in functions for formulas).  NOTE: Use Rename Formula... from the Rename menu to enter formulas.

•	Renumber Interval   The default renumber interval is 1, which numbers pictures with sequential integers beginning with the starting integer, for example, 1, 2, 3, etc.  If the Renumber Interval is 2, then renumbering beginning from 1 goes 1, 3, 5, etc., renumbering from 2 goes 2, 4, 6, etc., and so on.

•	Renumber   Check this entry to renumber files, beginning with the number in the Number From box, in the order of the list of files in the name section.

HINT:  Names assigned by some cameras can be sorted by date.  To renumber in this order, display the files in the file/blowup pane, and sort by Last Modified.  Select the files in this order.  At the Rename dialog, the names will appear in this order in the name section.  Check the Renumber option to number files in this order.

4)	In the name section, the current names and proposed name changes (New Name column) are shown.

To override the proposed name in the New Name column for one or more individual files, enter a name in the OR User Name/Type column (enter the complete file name, including picture number and extension, as an entry in the OR User Name/Type column overrides all New Name column entries).

NOTE: The name section changes do not take effect until you Left-click the Rename button.

5)	To display a picture in the window to the right, Left-click anywhere in the name row for that picture.

6)	To change the file names as they are indicated in the name section, Left-click Rename.

Example Of Renaming Feature

When you initially load a cardful of pictures of your company's annual meeting, taken with an Olympus digital camera, pictures are named PIC00001.JPG, PIC00002.JPG, etc.  Use the Rename feature to change them as follows.  PIC000 appears in the Change Part Of File Name text box.  In the Change This Part To text box, enter AnnualMeeting1999–.  This renames pictures to ANNUALMEETING1999–01.JPG, ANNUALMEETING1999–02.JPG, etc., up to ANNUALMEETING1999–29.JPG  When you then load additional annual meeting pictures from a second card, use the Rename feature to continue the numbering series.  In the Change This Part To text box, enter AnnualMeeting1999– as you did before; but this time, in addition enter 30 in the Number From text box.  This names the second set of pictures beginning with ANNUALMEETING1999–30.JPG and going up to ANNUALMEETING1999–48.JPG.


Assigning Descriptions To Pictures

This feature is designed to associate keywords or descriptive comments with pictures.  For example, pictures taken at a wedding might have file names like Smith&JonesWedding-yyyymmdd-nnnn.TIF, while the description of a picture could contain the name of each person in that picture.  It would then be possible to search your picture files for all pictures of a particular person.

Also, descriptions can be printed with pictures, offering a way to annotate your picture album.

To Assign Descriptions To Pictures

1)	On the thumbnail pane, select pictures for which to assign descriptions.  If all pictures or no pictures are selected, all pictures appear for describing.

2)	Left-click the Describe Selected button, or select Describe Selected from the Rename menu.  The Describe Selected Pictures dialog appears.

3)	For each picture, enter a description in the Description column.

4)	To display a picture in the window to the right, Left-click anywhere in the name row for that picture.

5)	To save the descriptions for the pictures so that they are stored with the file and become part of it, Left-click Describe.

NOTE: This feature can be used to print captions for pictures.  Assign captions as file descriptions, then select Print File Description from the Print menu when printing.


Displaying The Thumbnail List

To Display The Thumbnail List

1)	Left-click on the fourth section of the status bar, or select Thumbnail List from the Options menu.  The thumbnail list appears.

2)	The thumbnail list gives the following information for each picture file on the thumbnail pane.

•	Selection Order (unlabeled column)  Shows order in which picture was selected

•	Unsaved Modifications (unlabeled column)  An asterisk indicates file rotations which have not yet been saved

•	Path   Path specification for file

•	Name   File name (without extension)

•	Type   File extension

•	Last Modified  Time/Date of last modification of file

•	Size   File size, in kilobytes

•	Horz   Horizontal size of picture, in pixels

•	Vert   Vertical size of picture, in pixels

•	Bits   Number of bits per pixel; 8 is grayscale, 24 is color

•	Speed, f/Stop, Flash   If the digital camera produces EXIF files, the EXIF data for shutter speed, aperture, and flash will be displayed.

•	Description   Description assigned to file, if any

3)	To select pictures from the thumbnail list:  Files already selected on the thumbnail pane are highlighted in the thumbnail list.  Left-click on the row for a file to select it on the thumbnail pane.

4)	To adjust the grid:  Position the cursor on the column header, on the vertical divider at the right edge of the column you wish to adjust.  The double-arrow Adjust Cursor appears.  Left-drag to adjust the grid as desired.  NOTE: The grid adjustment remains in effect for the current session.

To sort the display of files:  Left-click on the column header to sort by column data.


Search Feature

1)	In the folder pane, select the folder containing the files you wish to search.

2)	To search file names in folders:  Left-click the Search For Files button, or select File Names Like (subdirectories)... from the Search menu.

OR

To search descriptions in folders:  Left-click the Search For Descriptions button, or select Descriptions Like (subdirectories) from the Search menu.

3)	At the dialog, enter the file name wildcard specification, using * and/or ? characters, and Left-click OK.

4)	The file/blowup pane shows the result of the search.  You may put these files onto the thumbnail pane using Pick Selected Files or Pick/Append Selected Files.


Save Options In dPhoto

Saving can be done:

•	At an editing dialog, using one of the three Save buttons.  At the Adjust dialog, Apply As Script Item is also an option.

•	From the Script menu, to save scripts with pictures.  SEE USING AND SAVING SCRIPTS IN DPHOTO below.

•	From the Rotate menu, to save thumbnail pane rotations. See DPHOTO BASICS, Rotating Pictures And Saving Rotations.

•	From the Save Options dialog (accessed with the Save Selected As function on the File menu).  See USING THE SAVE OPTIONS DIALOG below.

IMPORTANT:  While scriptable editing changes can be saved at other menus, non-scriptable corrections must be saved with a Save button at the editing dialog, or they will be lost when you exit the dialog.  Save after each editing action, OR use the Commit button after each action, then Save before exiting the dialog.

NOTE:  For some editing functions, you must first Left-click the Execute button, then Left-click an Apply or Save button.

How Editing Is Saved

•	Scripts      To create scripts: use script functions on Script menu, AND/OR, at Adjust dialog, use Apply As Script Item button, to save the current dialog’s changes.  Save scripts using a Save function on the Script menu.  To run and save scripts: use Save Options dialog or Save button at editing dialog.   See USING AND SAVING SCRIPTS IN DPHOTO, USING THE SAVE OPTIONS DIALOG, and APPLYING AUTOMATIC EDITING below.

•	Adjust Dialog Editing Actions   Can be saved as scripts, with Apply As Script Item button;  or  Use one of the Save buttons at the Adjust dialog.   See USING AND SAVING SCRIPTS IN DPHOTO, and USING THE ADJUST DIALOG.

•	Other Editing Dialogs’ Actions   Use one of the Save buttons at the dialog: Save Snapshot Of Original, Save To Original, or Save As Copy to save the current dialog’s changes.  NOTE: Script items are kept with saved pictures or copies unless they interfere with the current dialog’s corrections.  See sections on editing dialogs.

•	Rotations   Rotate pictures on thumbnail pane.  Then save using a Save function on the Rotate menu, or at the Save Options dialog.  See ROTATING PICTURES AND SAVING ROTATIONS in DPHOTO BASICS, and USING THE SAVE OPTIONS DIALOG below.

•	Resolution   Specify resolution at Scale dialog, then save at the Scale dialog or using the Save Options dialog.  See Using The Adjust Dialog, Scaling Pictures; and Using The Save Options Dialog below.

NOTE:  Scripts, rotations, and resolution can be saved as part of your original pictures with negligible loss of original image data.  However, if you run scripts or save Adjust dialog changes to your original picture, you will irreversibly change the original image data.

•	File Type   Can be specified at the Save Options dialog.  Changing file type from TIFF to JPEG will degrade quality of original.   See USING THE SAVE OPTIONS DIALOG below.

•	JPEG Quality   Can be specified at the Save Options dialog.  Lowering the quality setting will degrade original image.   See Using The Save Options Dialog below.

NOTE:  File type and JPEG quality corrections may or may not cause some loss of original image data when saved to the original picture.

Script And Save Buttons At Editing Dialogs

To apply corrections as a script item:   Available at the Adjust dialog only   Before switching to another action, Left-click the Apply As Script Item button to save the editing action as part of the picture’s script.  IMPORTANT:  To keep script items as part of your picture, you must save scripts from the Script menu, after exiting the editing dialog.

To save a snapshot of the original and save:  Left-click Save Snapshot of Original and Save.  The original image is automatically renamed; the edited version becomes the new original.  This feature allows you to create checkpoints at various points in the editing process.  Snapshot names indicate the time the snapshot was created.  See USING THE SNAPSHOT FEATURE below.

To save corrections to the original:  Left-click Save To Original to permanently modify the original picture.  You will get a confirm prompt.

To save corrections to a copy you name:  Left-click Save As Copy.  For each picture you are prompted for a name for the corrected picture (see USING THE SAVE AS DIALOG).  A corrected copy is created; the original is unchanged.


Affecting Originals When You Save

Some editing corrections can be saved with the picture with only negligible loss of original image data; these include editing changes saved in script form, rotations, and resolution changes.  Other editing changes, such as changing file type or JPEG quality (compression factor), may or may not cause some loss of original image data.

It is important to understand the difference between saving scripts with pictures, and running scripts for pictures.  When you save scripts, the original picture data is left intact, and corrections are applied automatically every time the image is printed.  There is negligible loss of original data when scripts are saved.  When you run scripts on your original files, however, you permanently change each picture’s data according to its script.  You can keep your original files intact by running scripts on copies of your pictures, or by saving snapshots of pictures before running scripts.

For editing changes which cannot be saved in script form, you must either overwrite your original file or make a corrected copy of it.  Editing changes, when saved to the original picture will certainly cause some irreversible data loss or possible degradation of your original image data.  When saving editing changes, you may wish to create copies of your original pictures, rather than overwriting them; or save snapshots of your originals.

Corrections That Cause Negligible Loss Of Original Data

These corrections can be saved with your original pictures with negligible loss of original image data.

•	Scripts (from the Adjust dialog)   when saved, not run

•	Rotations    except for arbitrary rotation

•	Resolution

Corrections That May Cause Some Loss Of Original Data

These corrections may or may not cause some data loss when saved to your original pictures.

•	File Type	Changing file type from TIFF to JPEG will degrade the quality of the original.

•	JPEG Quality	Lowering the quality setting will degrade the original image.

Corrections That Will Cause Some Irreversible Loss Of Original Data

For non-scriptable editing changes, you can save to your original, overwriting it; save a snapshot of your original and save changes to the new original; or save to a copy for which you specify a name.

Any editing corrections when saved to the original picture will cause some irreversible loss of your original image data.  The original image can only be approximately recovered from the results of these editing actions.  This may be worth it to you if the editing can enhance your picture or correct problems.  You may wish to keep your original picture unchanged, and make these corrections on a copy of the original, or save a snapshot of the original.

The following corrections, when saved to the original picture, will cause some irreversible loss or possible degradation of your original image data:

•	Editing changes saved at an editing dialog with a Save button

•	Scripts which are run at the Save Options dialog.


Using The Snapshot Feature

Use the Save Snapshot Of Original button after each editing action you do to keep a snapshot of changes made to the picture up to that point.  This provides a checkpointing feature, enabling you to restore a previous version of your photograph if a correction goes awry.  It also offers the possibility of trying different effects, saving snapshots of each correction, and then selecting your favorite result.

How Snapshots Are Automatically Named

When you Save Snapshot Of Original, the snapshot is named as follows:

•	A tilde (~) is put in front of the original name;

•	The original name is followed by a dash (–);

•	After the dash is a number indicating date of the save operation, in the form yyyymmdd;

•	Another dash is inserted, then a number indicating time of the save operation, in the form hhmmss, where hh is hours in 24 hour format.

Snapshot Features

The following are available from the Options menu.

Load Selected As Snapshots   This option loads all snapshots for all selected thumbnails, allowing you to compare various corrected versions of your pictures.  NOTE: Snapshots for a picture must be in the same folder as the picture.

Save Selected As Snapshots   If you want to make snapshots of a batch of pictures, load the pictures onto the thumbnail pane, and select this option.

Restore From Selected Snapshot   If you decide that you want to make a snapshot into the original again, use this option.  Select the snapshot on the thumbnail pane, then select this option.


Using And Saving Scripts In dPhoto

What Is A Script?

A script is a series of actions that can be performed on a picture during the current dPhoto session, and which can be saved with the picture for use in later sessions.  Each picture file can have only one script, which includes all of the scripting commands for that file.

Scripts are, in effect, deferred picture editing operations.  They do not show up on the thumbnail pane display of pictures; they are actually applied to the picture only at the time of printing.  You can preview pictures with scripts applied, using Zoom View.

All items on the Adjust and Text dialogs are scriptable; and all scriptable items are found on one of these dialogs.

Why Use Scripts?

One advantage of using scripts is that you do not need to permanently modify your original picture.  Instead, you can create a script for each picture file, which includes corrections that are applied when pictures are printed in dPhoto.

The alternative to scripts is to create a new edited copy of your picture, or actually change the original picture.  For editing dialogs other than the Adjust dialog, this is the only option.

Scripts can be created for a single session, or they can be saved as permanent parts of your picture files.  You can easily clear script items from files, add scripts, edit scripts, and copy and paste scripts.

How Scripts Are Applied

For Adjust and Text dialog actions, a correction is added to the picture’s script when the Apply As Script Item button is clicked.  The set of script items that is thus created for a picture is kept with the picture file only for the current dPhoto session.  In order to attach the script permanently to a picture, you must use a Save function on the Script menu.

Since scripted editing corrections are deferred until the picture is printed, they do not show up on the thumbnail pane display of pictures.  However, they can be seen at the Zoom View window, by clicking the Script button.

Save Buttons At The Adjust Editing Dialog

It is important to understand the difference between the Apply As Script Item button and the Save buttons at the Adjust dialog (whose corrections are scriptable).  Applying a change to the script, and saving using one of the three Save buttons, are entirely different functions.

Save Buttons do not save the current editing change as a script for the picture; that is done with the Apply As Script Item button.  What the Save buttons do is this: they save only the correction made for that action at the dialog, by overwriting the original picture or by creating a copy of the picture.   Previously added script items remain part of the saved picture or copy (and are saved), except for items which would interfere with the current editing function.

It is recommended that you use the script feature (described below) at the Adjust dialog, in which case you would not use a Save button but would instead use the Apply As Script Item after each editing change.  If you do use a Save button at the Adjust dialog, the current editing (the last editing action) done at that dialog becomes part of the original or copy you create by saving, rather than being added as a script item.  The effect of the save operation is as if that script item, and only that item, had been run.  Previously applied non-conflicting scriptable items are saved as part of the picture’s script.

You can also use the Apply As Script Item button first to add the correction to your script, and then use a Save button.  You might want to do this, for example, to save the editing change as a script item to the original; and then make a copy of the picture using the Save As Copy or Save Snapshot buttons.

Mutually Exclusive Corrections -- At The Adjust Dialog

You can have only one color-governing script item, from the following:

•	Contrast Optimize   OR

•	Gamma Adjust   OR

•	Saturation Adjust   OR

•	Color Balance

You can have only one geometric script item, from the following:

•	Crop   OR

•	Scale

If you enter a color-governing or geometric script item, it replaces any previous item of that type.

In addition, the following corrections made at other dialogs clear script items:

•	Color Correct	clears color-governing script item

•	Noise	clears color-governing script item

•	Color Shift	clears color-governing script item

AND

•	Perspective Correct	clears geometric script item

•	Rotate Arbitrarily	clears geometric script item

Mix And Match: Scripting And Saving

At dialogs with script capability, you should make a choice between using scripts and using the Save buttons.  More on this is included in SAVING EDITING CORRECTIONS below.

There are cases when you have applied scripting at the Adjust dialog, and then go to another dialog where you will use a Save button.  When you save, scripts are also saved (exceptions are noted in MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE CORRECTIONS above).

How Scripts Are Saved

Scripts are saved with pictures any time you do any type of Save operation, with the following exceptions:

•	If Ignore Scripts is checked at the Save Options dialog, scripts are not saved; and

•	If you use a Save button at the Adjust dialog, the current editing (the last editing action) done at that dialog becomes part of the original or copy you create by saving, rather than being added as a script item.  The effect of the save operation is as if that script item, and only that item, had been run.  Previously applied non-conflicting scriptable items are saved as part of the picture’s script.

Saving Editing Corrections At The Adjust Dialog

IMPORTANT:  In order to retain your corrections, for each correction action before moving to the next action, you must either:

If you are using the scripting feature (recommended):

•	Left-click the Apply As Script Item button after each correction action.

•	Left-click the Commit button in addition to show correction effects as you go on to make further corrections.

•	Do not use a Save button!

•	Save scripts after exiting the dialog, with a Save Scripts function on the Script menu.

OR

If you are not using the scripting feature:  Use one of the following methods.  (See DOING EXTENSIVE EDITING - ADVANCED TRACK.)

•	Left-click the Commit button after each correction action.

•	Left-click one of the Save buttons before exiting the dialog.

NOTE: This method enables correction effects to be seen as you continue to edit the image.  To be ultra-safe, use the Save Snapshot Of Original button create a checkpoint after each correction.

or

•	Use one of the Save buttons after each correction action.  To be ultra-safe, use the Save Snapshot Of Original button to checkpoint your corrections; each saved file will then contain only one correction.

IMPORTANT: With this method, if you Save As Copy you will not be working with the corrected version if you go on to make further corrections.

Applying Versus Saving Versus Running Scripts

It is important to understand the difference between applying a change as a script item, saving scripts with pictures, and running scripts for pictures.

Apply As Script Item   The editing action affects pictures for the current dPhoto session only, at the time of printing.  When you clear pictures off the thumbnail pane or exit dPhoto, applied script corrections are cleared from your pictures.  You will get a confirm prompt asking if you wish to save any unsaved scripts.  Saving can be done at the Script menu.

Save Scripts   Saving is done at the Script menu.  Scripts are kept with your pictures for subsequent dPhoto sessions.  The original picture data is left intact, and corrections are applied automatically every time the image is printed.  If you change your mind about scripted corrections, you can change the script, and the new script will be applied to the original data.  There is negligible loss of original data when scripts are saved.

Run Scripts   When you run scripts on your original files, you permanently change each picture’s data according to its script.  You can keep your original files intact by running scripts on copies of your pictures.  You will want to run scripts for pictures to incorporate into a slide show or to send to a friend who does not use dPhoto.  NOTE: Since running scripts incorporates scripted changes into the picture, once you have run scripts the picture no longer contains those script items.

Why Run Scripts?

Running scripts goes much farther than saving scripts.  Running a script actually changes your picture according to the script commands, permanently incorporating the editing changes dictated by the script.  You can run scripts to create copies of your pictures, or to overwrite your originals.  To run scripts, access the Save Options dialog by selecting Save Selected As from the File menu.

You would run a script if you wanted to send a picture to someone who does not have dPhoto.  You would also want to run scripts for pictures to be incorporated into slide shows in dPhoto.

To Apply A Script Item

To apply a correction as a script item:  After making each editing correction and before selecting another action, Left-click the Apply As Script Item button.  The correction is added to the picture as a script item.

IMPORTANT:  When you save corrections using this option, corrections are lost once you clear the picture from the thumbnail pane, or end the current session.  To save corrections as part of the picture, you must use one of the Save functions on the Script menu, described in TO SAVE SCRIPT CORRECTIONS WITH A PICTURE below.

NOTE: For pictures with applied but unsaved script items, if you try to remove pictures from the thumbnail pane or try to exit dPhoto, you are prompted whether you wish to abandon modifications.

To Apply And Save Prepared Scripts

dPhoto offers some basic script corrections for pictures which can be applied automatically: Optimize Contrast, People, and Buildings/Machines.  These can be used for a single session, or made a permanent part of pictures.  See APPLYING AUTOMATIC EDITING below.

To Save Script Corrections With A Picture

1)	At the Adjust dialog, for each correction Left-click the Apply As Script Item button.  At the Text dialog, Left-click the Apply As Script Item button when done entering text.

2)	To save script corrections for selected thumbnails:  Select Save Selected Scripts from the Script menu.

To save scripts for all thumbnails:  Select Save All Scripts from the Script menu.

These corrections will be applied to the picture whenever it is printed in dPhoto.  Corrections will not appear on the thumbnail display.

3)	You may copy, cut, paste, delete, and/or clear script items.  See below.

If you make further editing changes to picture scripts, repeat the Save process.

4)	To view a picture with scriptable corrections applied:

•	Go the the Zoom View window, by Left-clicking the Zoom View tool, OR by selecting Zoom View from the Options menu, OR by Right-clicking a thumbnail and selecting Zoom View.

•	Left-click the Script button.  See ZOOM VIEW FUNCTION.

To Copy And Paste Scripts

1)	On the thumbnail pane, select the picture from which to copy the script.

2)	Select Copy Selected Script from the Script menu.  NOTE:  If there is more than one selected thumbnail, the script is copied from the picture that was selected first.

3)	To paste script into selected thumbnails:  From the Script menu, select Paste Copied Script Into Selected.

OR

To paste script into all thumbnails:  From the Script menu, select Paste Copied Script Into All.

NOTE: This replaces the scripts in those pictures.

4)	To save pasted scripts for selected thumbnails:  From the Script menu, select Save Selected Scripts.

OR

To save pasted scripts for all thumbnails:  From the Script menu, select Save All Scripts.

To Delete Selected Scripts From Pictures

1)	On the thumbnail pane, select the picture(s) from which to delete script items.

2)	Select Delete Script Items From Selected from the Script menu.  The Delete Script Items dialog appears, showing the script items for the first picture.

3)	Select one or more script items to delete, and Left-click the Delete button.

4)	Required:  Left-click the Commit button to commit deletions.

5)	Left-click OK and exit the dialog.

To Clear All Scripts From Pictures

1)	Make sure pictures to be cleared are displayed on the thumbnail pane.  Select pictures if you only want to clear scripts for certain pictures.

2)	To clear all scripts from selected thumbnails:  Select Clear Selected Scripts from the Script menu.

OR

To clear all scripts from all thumbnails:  Select Clear All Scripts from the Script menu.

To Run Scripts

Running scripts permanently changes a picture’s data according to its script corrections.  Since running scripts incorporates scripted changes into the picture, once you have run scripts the picture no longer contains those script items.  This means that once scripts are run, those script items cannot be deleted, cut, copied, pasted, or cleared from pictures.  NOTE: You would run scripts when sending pictures to a non-dPhoto recipient, or when incorporating pictures into a dPhoto slide show.

1)	From the File menu, select Save Selected As to access the Save Options dialog.

2)	Select the Run Scripts & Save option (see USING THE SAVE OPTIONS DIALOG below).  To avoid overwriting your original picture, select Save As Copy.

3)	Left-click Save.  Copies incorporating the scripted changes are created (your original pictures are not changed but include scripts).


Order For Scriptable Editing

Most users will find that a few simple steps can greatly enhance their pictures.  Below is the recommended order of your editing changes.

Step 1.  Make overall color corrections first.    The first corrections you should make are corrections of overall color.  To do this, you would use one of the following functions.

Contrast Optimize (Adjust dialog)	Apply as script item

OR

Gamma Adjust  (Adjust dialog)	Apply as script item

OR

Color Balance  (Adjust dialog)	Apply as script item

In addition, you might wish to do the following further color correction:

Saturation  (Adjust dialog)	Apply as script item

Step 2.  Crop your picture.    You may crop your picture.  Cropping shows up when the picture is printed.

Crop  (Adjust dialog)	Apply as script item

Step 3.  Sharpen or blur your picture.    You may sharpen or blur your picture.  This should be the last editing step you do.

Sharpen (Adjust dialog)	Apply as script item

OR

Blur (Adjust dialog)	Apply as script item

Step 4.  Save your scripts.    You may want to save your scripts as part of your pictures.  Do not use a Save button at the dialog (you should have applied each correction as a script item).  After exiting the dialog, use the one of the Save options on the Script menu.


Using The Save Options Dialog

The Save Options dialog offers comprehensive saving options for scripts, rotations, resolution, file type, JPEG quality, and other editing corrections.  IMPORTANT: Pictures to be saved with this function must be selected on the thumbnail pane.

Saving Scripts:  Generally, when saving scripts you should use the Save functions on the Script menu.  You would use the Save Options dialog only when you need to run scripts and save (for sending pictures to a non-dPhoto user, or incorporating pictures into a slide show).  Or, you might use this dialog when you want to save rotations or other changes at the same time as saving scripts.  You could also use this dialog to overwrite or make copies of your scripted pictures.

Saving Rotations:  Generally, to save only rotations and flips, you would use the Save functions on the Rotate menu.  You would use the Save Options dialog when you are saving other changes as well as rotations and flips.  You could also use this dialog to overwrite or make copies of your rotated pictures.  NOTE:  The rotations saved here are the ones done on the thumbnail pane; arbitrary rotations must be saved at the Rotation dialog only, and cannot be saved here.

To access the Save Options dialog:  Select Save Selected As from the File menu.

Save options apply to all pictures selected on the thumbnail pane.

Script Options

These options govern the script for each picture.  Scripts are created at the basic editing dialogs (see USING AND SAVING SCRIPTS IN DPHOTO above).

•	Ignore Scripts	Do not include scripts with saved pictures

•	Save With Scripts	Save script with the saved picture (the default setting).

•	Run Scripts & Save	Run the script and change the picture’s data according to the script, saving the corrected picture data to a file.

Save Rotations/Flips

When checked, you are saving rotations and flips done on the thumbnail pane, for pictures currently selected on the thumbnail pane.  NOTE:  Arbitrary rotations must be saved at the Rotation dialog only, and cannot be saved here.

Save Options

These options specify how each file is saved, overwriting the original or saving to a copy.

•	Save To Original	Save to the original file name, overwriting the original picture which is permanently modified.  You will get a confirm prompt.

•	Save As Auto Copy	Save corrections to an automatically named copy, located in the same folder as the original (the default setting).

•	Save As Prompted Copy	The Save As dialog appears, where you can enter a file name for each selected picture (see USING THE SAVE AS DIALOG below).  A corrected copy is created; the original is unchanged.  NOTE: If you cancel at the Save As dialog, the picture is skipped, and no corrections are saved.

How Copies Are Automatically Named

The automatic copy is named using the original file name with the addition of characters indicating how the picture was edited, followed by the original extension.

When you run scripts and save at this dialog, the automatic copy is named filename–rs.ext, where filename is the name of the original picture, rs stands for Run Script, and ext is the original extension.

For all other save features at the Save Options dialog, the automatic copy is named filename–dp.ext, where filename is the name of the original picture, dp stands for dPhoto, and ext is the original extension.

File Options

•	Original File Type	Save your picture to its original file type (the default setting).

•	JPEG File Type	Save your picture as a JPEG file (extension will be .JPG)

•	TIFF File Type	Save your picture as a TIFF file (extension will be .TIF)

JPEG Quality

For each selected picture, you can enter nn, where nn is a number between 0 (lowest quality) and 100 (highest quality) that specifies the JPEG quality for the file.  A higher quality setting creates a larger file.  NOTE: The default quality setting for an image copied from the clipboard is 85.

You can set a lower JPEG quality setting in order to reduce the size of a file, for example for sending over the Internet.

If no value is specified at this option, the quality will be the same as the original file.

To Use The Save Options Dialog

1)	Make sure the pictures you want to save are selected on the thumbnail pane.

2)	From the File menu, select Save Selected As.  The Save Options dialog appears.

3)	Select one of the three Script Options:  Ignore Scripts, Save With Scripts (the default), or Run Scripts & Save.

4)	You may check Save Rotations/Flips (initially checked) to save rotations and/or flips done on the thumbnail pane.  Uncheck this option if you do not want to save rotations and/or flips.

5)	Select one of the Save Options:  Save To Original, Save As Auto Copy, Save Snapshot Of Original.

6)	You may change the file type for selected pictures, by selecting either JPEG File Type or TIFF File Type for the File Option.  To leave the file type unchanged, make sure Original File Type (the initial setting) is selected.

7)	You may enter a value for JPEG Quality.  Enter nn, where nn is a number between 0 (lowest quality) and 100 (highest quality) that specifies the JPEG quality for the file.  A higher quality setting creates a larger file.  NOTE: The default quality setting for an image copied from the clipboard is 85.

8)	Left-click Save to save all pictures selected on the thumbnail pane.  A message appears, “Saving n of m”, as well as a Cancel button which you may click to cancel the save operation.


Using The Save As Dialog

The Save As dialog enables you to specify a file name for the saved file, and save any resolution that has been set at the Scale dialog.

The Save As dialog appears when you choose the Save As Copy button at any editing dialog.  It also appears when you specify Save As Prompted Copy at the Save Options dialog (accessed with Save Selected As from the File menu).

To Use The Save As Dialog

1)	On the thumbnail pane, select the pictures you wish to save.

2)	Select Save Selected As from the File menu.  At the Save Options dialog which appears, specify Save As Prompted Copy.

OR

If you are at an editing dialog, Left-click the Save As Copy button.

The Save As dialog appears.  The name of the first selected file appears in the bottom right text box.  NOTE: The first part of the file name is followed by a hyphen, to lessen chances of accidentally overwriting a file.

3)	To modify the file name:  You may modify the displayed name by typing in the text box.

To control the JPEG quality of the created file:  Follow the file name and extension with /nnn, where nnn is a number from 1 to 100 which specifies JPEG quality.

4)	Left-click OK.

For basic editing dialogs, you are returned to the dialog and the next selected picture, if any, is displayed for editing.  If the saved picture is the last selected picture, you are exited from the basic editing dialog.

For advanced editing dialogs, you are returned to the dialog; the picture you just saved is displayed for possible further editing.

OR, Left-click Cancel to cancel the Save As operation; no action is taken.  You are returned to the dialog from which you came.


Saving Clipboard Image To File

You can save a screen capture, or copy images from applications that support copying of bitmapped images, using the Save Clipboard Image To File feature in dPhoto.

To Save Clipboard Image To File

1)	Capture a screenshot using the Windows screen capture feature.  NOTE:  The required keystrokes differ for different computers; to find out how to do a screen capture on your computer, search for Screen clipboard in Windows Help.

OR

Within an application that supports bitmapped images, copy an image to the clipboard.

2)	Select Save Clipboard Image To File from the Options menu.  At the Save As dialog, enter a name for the file.

The newly created file is added to the thumbnail pane.


Editing Overview

At these editing dialogs you can do most of your editing, including adding text to pictures: Retouch, Adjust, Wand, and Text.  Other dialogs are: Picture Analysis, Zoom View, Arbitrary Rotate, Correct Perspective, and Color Correct.

Generally, at the Retouch dialog you select an editable area geometrically, using a brush or a shape.  At the Adjust dialog, the entire image is adjusted.  At the Wand dialog, you select an editable area either according to color characteristics or geometrically using a mask selection.

Some of the editing features are found on more than one editing dialog, because they can be done using various methods.

To Edit Photographs -- A Summary

1)	Load pictures onto the thumbnail pane.

2)	Select one or more pictures to edit.

3)	Right-click on a selected picture for a menu of editing options.  Select Retouch, Adjust, Wand, or Text.  (NOTE: Right-clicking on an unselected picture selects that picture only, as well as bringing up the menu.)

OR

From the Edit menu, select Retouch Selected, Adjust Selected, or Wand Selected; then select the desired action from the pullout menu.  NOTE: Selecting any of these actions takes you to the dialog, where you can select any of the other included actions.

OR

From the Edit menu, select Text Selected, Rotate Selected Arbitrarily, Perspective Correct Selected, or Color Correct Selected.

The selected editing dialog appears.  You may use any of the editing features described in COMMON DIALOG FEATURES and in sections covering the various editing dialogs.  You may use one or more of the editing actions at the dialog to correct your picture.

4)	Left-click its button to select an editing action.  Make the desired correction for that action.

5)	At the Retouch, Adjust, or Wand dialog, before going to another action, Left-click the Commit button to keep your change and to display it as you make further corrections.

For scriptable items at the Adjust dialog, in addition Left-click the Apply As Script Item button after each action, to keep that correction as part of the picture’s script.

6)	You may go to another action and continue making corrections.

7)	To keep checkpoints of your changes:  Checkpointing enables you to restore a previous version of your photograph if a correction goes awry.  Use the Save Snapshot Of Original button after each editing action you do to keep a snapshot of changes made to the picture up to that point.  (This step is not necessary for script corrections.)

8)	When you have made one or more changes at the dialog, use one of the Save buttons to save your corrected picture.  You may use a Save button after each editing action correction, or after all corrections have been made.

OR

If you have applied corrections as script items at the Adjust or Text dialog, do not use a Save button.  Instead, exit the dialog and save scripts using one of the Save functions on the Script menu.  You may edit, run, or clear scripts after exiting the dialog.

9)	Exit the dialog to return to the main dPhoto window.  IMPORTANT: You cannot work in the main dPhoto window when there is another dialog window open.


Applying Automatic Editing

dPhoto offers some basic corrections for pictures which can be applied automatically.  You can apply general contrast optimize settings, settings designed for pictures of people, or settings designed for pictures of buildings and machines.

These corrections are applied when pictures are printed for the current session only, as long as pictures are still on the thumbnail pane.

If you want to make these basic corrections a permanent part of a picture’s script, you need to paste the corrections into the picture file and then save the file.  The corrections are then applied to the picture whenever it is displayed or printed in dPhoto.

NOTE: Of the three options available (Contrast Optimize, People, and Buildings/Machines), only one can be selected at a time.

To Optimize Contrast

1)	Select pictures on the thumbnail pane:

2)	From the Script menu, select Contrast Optimize.  When pictures are printed, the default contrast optimize settings are applied.

3)	You may save corrections as part of the permanent script for pictures.  See description below.

To Correct Pictures Of People

1)	Select pictures on the thumbnail pane:

2)	From the Script menu, select People.  When pictures are printed, the default contrast optimize settings are applied; also applied are sharpening settings which do not emphasize skin irregularities.

3)	You may save corrections as part of the permanent script for pictures (see below).

To Correct Pictures Of Buildings And Machines

1)	Select pictures on the thumbnail pane.

2)	From the Script menu, select Buildings/Machines.  When pictures are printed, the default contrast optimize settings are applied; also applied are sharpening settings which do not emphasize highlights.

3)	You may save corrections as part of the permanent script for pictures (see below).

To Save Corrections As Part Of A Picture’s Permanent Script

1)	Select either Contrast Optimize, People, or Buildings/Machines at the Script menu.

2)	Make sure pictures to be corrected are displayed on the thumbnail pane.  Select pictures if you only want to apply corrections to certain pictures.

3)	To add corrections only to selected pictures on thumbnail pane:  From the Script menu, select Paste Prepared Script Into Selected.

OR

To add corrections to all pictures on thumbnail pane:  From the Script menu, select Paste Prepared Script Into All.

4)	To save corrections only for selected pictures on thumbnail pane:  From the Script menu, select Save Selected Scripts.

OR

To save corrections for all pictures on thumbnail pane:  From the Script menu, select Save All Scripts.

These corrections will be applied to the picture whenever it is printed in dPhoto.

To Save Only Automatic Correction - Batch Method

If you want to save only an automatic editing correction for a large number of pictures, you can use this method.  NOTE:  This method is only for pictures for which no other scriptable changes have been made.

1)	Select either Contrast Optimize, People, or Buildings/Machines at the Script menu.

2)	Make sure pictures to be corrected are selected on the thumbnail pane.  NOTE: These should be pictures for which no other editing changes have been made.

3)	From the File menu, select Save Selected As.  The Save Options dialog appears.

4)	To save corrections as part of script:  Select Save With Scripts in the Script Options section.  These corrections will be applied to the picture whenever it is printed in dPhoto.

OR

To run scripts and save corrections:  Select Run Scripts & Save in the Script Options section.  Select the desired option in the Save Options section.  Depending on the Save option selected, pictures are saved with the automatic editing correction to the original or to a copy.


Common Dialog Features

The features described in this section are common to all the editing dialogs.  More information on the various dialogs is found in subsequent chapters.

Using An Editing Dialog

•	From the thumbnail pane, select the picture(s) to edit.  From the Edit menu, select the editing function; or Right-click on a selected picture and select Retouch, Adjust, Wand, or Text, to go to that dialog.  Note: If you Right-click on an unselected picture, your previous selection is discarded and that picture is now selected.

•	At the dialog, Left-click the Action button for the desired editing action.

•	Select any options and specify any adjustments for the editing process.

•	When done editing, Left-click one of the Save buttons.  For scriptable changes (at the Adjust dialog), you may Left-click Apply As Script Item; after leaving the dialog you may choose to save, run, or discard scripts.

The next selected picture, if any, is displayed.

•	Close the dialog (by clicking the Close icon at the top right, or by clicking the Done button) to return to the dPhoto main screen.

Filmstrip

At the lower right under the preview pane is a filmstrip which shows all selected pictures.  You may scroll through pictures using the scroll arrows (the single arrow jumps by one in the indicated direction, the double arrow jumps by “page”).  To select a picture for editing, Left-drag it onto the preview pane, OR double-click on it.

Zoom Features

[Ctrl]-Left-click on the picture to zoom in at the cursor location; [Ctrl]-Right-click on the picture to zoom out.  [Ctrl]-Left-drag to enclose the area you would like to zoom in to see.

Navigation On The Picture

[Ctrl]-Right-drag on the picture to scroll the picture in any direction.

Rotating Pictures

Left-click the Rotate 90° Clockwise or the Rotate 90° Counterclockwise button.

Accessing Help

Left-click the Help button.  A text box containing help information for the dialog appears.

Selecting An Image To Edit

Selected photos are displayed on the filmstrip at the bottom right of the menu.  You may scroll through pictures using the scroll arrows (the single arrow jumps by one in the indicated direction, the double arrow jumps by “page”).  To select a picture for editing, Left-drag it onto the preview pane, OR double-click on it.

To display previous picture:  Left-click the Previous button to display the previous picture.

To display next picture:  Left-click the Next button to display the next picture.

Selecting An Editing Action

From the buttons at the top left of the dialog, Left-click its button to select an editing action.

Displaying Edited vs. Original

Just under the action buttons is a status bar showing whether the image displayed to the right is the edited (initial setting) or the original version of the image.  The percentage shows the zoom ratio for the picture.

On the bottom toolbar are buttons which allow you to change the displayed version.  Left-click the button to the left to see the original, OR Left-click the button to the right to see the edited image.  The default setting is the edited view, except for the Crop action at the Adjust dialog.

Committing Editing Changes

You may click this button to “fix” the current editing changes.  If you are sure you wish to keep the corrections you have made so far, click the Commit button.  This ensures that when you go to another action, corrections are kept and their effects seen as you go on to make further corrections.

Be sure you want to keep corrections, as you cannot undo actions done previous to committing.  When you use the Undo Brush at the Retouch dialog, “committed” edits are not affected.

IMPORTANT:  The Commit function keeps corrections when you switch to another action.  However, in order to keep corrections after leaving the dialog, you must either use a Save button before exiting the dialog; OR for scriptable items (all items on the Adjust dialog), use Apply As Script Item for each correction action you wish to keep, then save your scripts.  Note that unless you Save As Original, you can always revert to the original on the thumbnail if you change your mind about corrections.

Undoing And Redoing

To undo an editing change:  Left-click the Undo button.

To redo an editing change:  Left-click the Redo button.

Picture Information

When the cursor is over the picture, picture information (at the lower left) is shown for the pixel under the cursor: x and y coordinates; Red, Green, and Blue values; and Hue, Saturation, and Value for that pixel.

Point Sample Option

The point sample option (to the right of the picture information) affects how point samples are taken as well as how picture information is collected.  Initially, the 1 x 1 option is selected, which selects a single pixel under the cursor.  Select the 3 x 3 option to select an average of values for a nine pixel block centered around the cursor position.  OR Select the 5 x 5 option to select an average of values for a 25 pixel block centered around the cursor position.

Shape Options

Shape options are available when:

•	Defining a custom brush for retouch actions;

•	Drawing areas on your photograph for retouch actions: Stamp, Redeye, Blemish, Noise, and Color Shift;

•	Drawing area samples on your photograph for Gamma Adjust; and

•	Drawing an area to select a mask for wand actions.

Shapes consist of segments, anchor points (connecting segments), a rotation axis, and for splines, control points.  For some functions, shapes can be edited and rotated.

When defining a custom brush, or a stamp, you may select from the following shape options: circle, ellipse (type of oval), square, rectangle, polyline, and spline.  Custom brush and stamp shapes can be moved, edited, and rotated.

When drawing areas for retouch actions such as redeye (the default is the ellipse); OR  when drawing area samples for Gamma Adjust; OR when selecting a mask by drawing an area; you can use a rectangle, ellipse, polyline, or spline shape tool.  Gamma Adjust shapes can be moved, edited, and rotated.

To draw a shape:

•	Select a shape tool.

•	Left-drag to draw a circle, ellipse, square or rectangle.

•	To draw a polyline, Left-click on the starting point.  For each segment, move the mouse to the end of that segment and Left-click to place an anchor point.  To erase an anchor point, Right-click to erase the last anchor point, or Right-click on a point to remove it.  To close the shape, return to the starting point and Left-click on it, or double-click anywhere to connect the last anchor point to the starting point.

•	To draw a spline, proceed as for a polyline.  Left-click on either end to create a straight segment.  To make curved segments, move your cursor to the end of a segment to be curved and Right-drag to create the curve.  The next segment will also be curved.  When you begin Right-dragging, this adds an anchor point and two control points at the beginning of the curved segment.

NOTE: Press the [Shift] key while dragging to keep horizontal or vertical alignment.

To edit a shape:

NOTE: When the cursor modifier is a pencil, editing capabilities are available.

•	For all shapes, you may edit by Left-dragging a segment, or by Left-dragging an anchor point or control point.

•	For polylines and splines:  To erase an anchor point, Right-click on the point.  To add an anchor point, Right-click on a segment where you want the point.

•	For splines:  To change a segment from straight to curved, Right-drag from its anchor point to draw out control points.  To change a segment from curved to straight: Right-click on its control points.

NOTE: Press the [Shift] key while dragging to keep horizontal or vertical alignment.

To move a shape:  When the move cursor appears, Left-drag from inside the shape.

To rotate a shape:

•	Move outside the shape until the rotation lever appears.  (The cursor modifier indicates rotation.)  The lever will appear when the rotation axis, an anchor point, and the cursor are all in line.

•	Left-drag the rotation lever to rotate the shape.

NOTE: You may Left-drag the rotation axis, which is normally in the center of the shape to move it.  It stays wherever it is moved.

Cursor

The cursor changes to indicate its current function.  When editing is available for a shape, the cursor modifier is a pencil; when moving is possible it is a move hand; when rotating is possible, it is the rotate symbol.

For the cursor cross, the hot spot lies directly under the cross point.

Sharpening And Blurring Variables   Sharpen And Blur Only

You can sharpen and blur at the Retouch, Adjust, and Wand dialogs.  You can adjust the following settings.

To adjust sharpening variables:  Optional

Amount % values control the intensity of the sharpening effect for the original picture, for Lightening and Darkening values.  You may adjust the white slider for Lightening, and the dark slider for Darkening.  NOTE: When the Lightening and Darkening values are the same, moving the Lightening value also moves the Darkening value.  Values can range from 0% to 500%.  The initial setting is 75%.

HINT: For machine parts and building materials such as concrete, use 75% for Lightening and 150% for Darkening.  For faces, use 75% Lightening and 25% Darkening.  For shots of the sky, decrease on the Lightening value.

Rad controls the width of the radius, in pixels, of the sharpening effect.  As the radius setting is increased, edges are emphasized more.  You may select a number between 0 and 25.  The initial setting is 1.5; the recommended setting is between 1 and 2.  NOTE: This setting governs both Lightening and Darkening.

Thr   The Threshold (levels) allows you to avoid sharpening digital noise, which makes it more prominent, for Lightening and Darkening values.  The initial setting is 2, which means that anything for which sharpening would result in an increase of 2 or more levels is sharpened, and anything less than 2 levels is ignored.  Note: When the Lightening and Darkening values are the same, moving the Lightening value also moves the Darkening value.  You may enter a number between 0 and 255.

NOTE: The initial settings for the Sharpening feature are geared to 4” x 6” or 5” x 7” prints; for 8” x 10” prints, the values may be too much; for 6 photos per page, the values may not be enough.

To adjust blurring variables:  Optional

Weight % values control the strength with which the blurring effect is applied to the original picture.  The initial setting is 60%.  You may use the slider to select a percentage from 0% to 100%.

Radius (pixels) setting controls the degree of the out-of-focusness.  As the radius setting is increased, out-of-focusness increases.  You may use the slider to select a radius between 0 and 25.  The initial setting is 1.5.

Save Options

See SCRIPTING AND SAVING IN DPHOTO for complete information on these options.

To apply corrections as a script item:   Available at the Adjust dialog only   Before switching to another action, Left-click the Apply As Script Item button to save the editing action as part of the picture’s script.  IMPORTANT:  When you save corrections using this option, corrections are lost once you clear the picture from the thumbnail pane or end the current dPhoto session, unless you save scripts from the Script menu.

To save a snapshot of the original and save:  Left-click Save Snapshot of Original and Save.  The original image is automatically renamed; the edited version becomes the new original.  This feature allows you to create checkpoints at various points in the editing process.  Snapshot names indicate the time the snapshot was created.

To save corrections to the original:  Left-click Save To Original to permanently modify the original picture.  You will get a confirm prompt.

To save corrections to a copy you name:  Left-click Save As Copy.  For each picture you are prompted for a name for the corrected picture (see USING THE SAVE AS DIALOG).  A corrected copy is created; the original is unchanged.

Exiting The Dialog

When done, Left-click the Done button.  OR  Left-click the Close icon at the top right corner of the dialog.


Zoom View Function

The Zoom View function displays a selected picture in a window which provides full zooming capabilities.

To enter the Zoom View window:  Left-click the Zoom View tool, OR select Zoom View from the Options menu, OR, Right-click on a thumbnail and select Zoom View.  The selected picture fills the Zoom View window; OR if more than one picture is selected, the first picture in the series is displayed.

The following zoom functions are available:

To zoom in:   Left-click Zoom In tool; OR press the [+] key; OR Left-click on the picture to zoom in at the cursor location.

To zoom out:   Left-click Zoom Out tool; OR press the [–] key; OR Right-click on the picture.

To rotate display 90° counterclockwise:   Left-click the Rotate 90° Counterclockwise tool (applies to display only).

To rotate display 90° clockwise:   Left-click the Rotate 90° Clockwise tool (applies to display only).

When more than one picture is selected, you can move between pictures to compare them.  For pictures with the same number of pixels, the zoom factor  remains the same as you move between them.  The following  additional tools appear:

To go to previous picture:  Left-click this tool OR press the [Page Up] to go the the previous picture in the selected series.

To go to next picture:  Left-click this tool OR press the [Page Down] key to go the the next picture in the selected series.

To select pictures:  Initially, all pictures are selected.  Selection is indicated by the dark blue box to the left of the arrow; unselected pictures are indicated by a gray box.  To de-select or re-select pictures, Left-click this tool.  NOTE: Unselected pictures still appear in the Zoom View window; however, they will not be selected on the thumbnail pane once you leave this window.

To see the picture with scripts:  Left-click this tool to see the picture as it appears with all script items applied.  This is how the picture will be printed.

To move around on the picture:  Use the scroll bars to move around on your picture when you are zoomed in.

To leave the Zoom View window:  Left-click the Done button, OR click on the Close icon in the upper righthand corner of the window.


Analyzing Pictures

With dPhoto’s picture analysis feature, you can analyze, for all or a selected portion of a picture, the Luminance, Red, Green, and Blue values.

To Analyze Pictures

1)	From the thumbnail pane, select the picture(s) to analyze.

2)	Left-click the Picture Analysis tool, OR select Analyze from the Edit menu, OR select Picture Analysis from the Options menu.  The dialog appears.

Histograms for Luminance, Red, Green, and Blue are shown for the entire picture.

3)	To select an area to analyze:

•	Left-click the Histogram button.

•	Left-click a shape tool.  On your image, Left-drag  (Left-click for Polyline tool) to draw an area to analyze.

Histograms for the area sample are shown.

Picture information shows the range of values in the area sample.

•	Left-click the histogram button again to view histograms for the entire picture.  (NOTE: Your sample is cleared.)

4)	To select a color component to view:  Left-click one of the color component buttons to select which color component to view.  NOTE: The picture display for a single color appears in grayscale to represent the intensity of the color, with black representing the least intensity and white representing the most.

The white button gives the luminance values.

The Red/Green/Blue button (the initial setting) gives all colors.

5)	Exit the dialog when done.


Using Histograms

Several dPhoto dialogs use histograms to give a graphic representation of some aspects of the image.  Histograms appear in the Adjust dialog for Contrast Optimize, Gamma Adjust, and Saturation Adjust.

Histograms are also displayed at the Picture Analysis dialog, which you can access as follows: Left-click the Picture Analysis tool, OR select Analyze from the Edit menu, OR select Picture Analysis from the Options menu.

You can show the histogram for a thumbnail by Right-clicking it and selecting Histogram (for a group of selected pictures, the histogram for the first picture selected is shown).  For a picture in the File/Blowup pane, or enlarged from that pane, Right-clicking on it displays its histogram.

For editing dialogs, two histograms are shown: the upper one represents the original, the lower represents the picture after adjustment.

Each histogram shows a graphic representation of the number of pixels at each brightness level in the picture.  The horizontal axis of the histogram represents the color values from darkest (0) at the left to brightest (255) at the right; the vertical axis represents the total number of pixels with that value.

The shaded part of the histogram gives a visual representation of the count (i.e. the number of pixels) for each of the various color values.  You can see the count for a particular value when you leave the cursor for a few seconds at the level of that value on the histogram.

For dialogs at which a Red/Green/Blue color component may be selected, the histograms show values from 0 (black) to 255 (white).  These are the values corresponding to the brightness of that color for any given pixel.

Histograms For Gamma Adjust

For Gamma Adjust, three control points appear on the (upper) histogram for the original picture.  For the selected color component(s), the left control point (a cyan vertical line, with adjustment point at the bottom) governs the darkest values; the middle control point (a green vertical line, with adjustment point at the top) governs the gamma values, and the right control point (a cyan vertical line, with adjustment point at the bottom) governs the lightest values for the picture.

Left-drag an adjustment point to adjust a setting.  Gamma values can range from 0.25 to 4.0.  Black and white values range from 0 to 255 (black can’t be greater than white).

The control points provide ways of adjusting colors singly or in combination;  when either red, green, or blue is selected they also indicate black, gamma, and white settings.  When more than one color component is selected, the control points do not necessarily represent the values they govern.

When the cursor (an arrow whose select point is the tip of the arrow) is on the original histogram, a series of four numbers is displayed above the top histogram:

•	The Value range for the pixel(s) under the cursor

•	The count of pixels for that value

•	Its percentile rank relative to black

•	Its percentile rank relative to white.


Taking Samples

For Retouch, Redeye, Blemish, Noise, Color Shift, Gamma Adjust, and Paint, you can take color samples, either from your image or from the Color Picker.  From your image you can take either a point or an area sample.

NOTE:  If you do not like your sample for a setting, simply retake the sample.

To enter sampling mode:   Not required for Gamma Adjust

Left-click the Sampling Mode button.

To take a point sample:

For Gamma Adjust only, Left-click the Point Sample tool.

Left-click on the photograph where you want to take the sample.  NOTE: The sample is taken directly under the cross point of the cursor cross.

NOTE: You may select a point sample option to specify how a point sample is taken.  The 1 x 1 option (the initial setting) selects a single pixel under the cursor; the 3 x 3 option selects an average of values for a nine pixel block centered around the cursor position; the 5 x 5 option selects an average of values for a 25 pixel block centered around the cursor position.

To take an area sample:

•	Left-click one of the shape tools: Rectangle, Ellipse, Polyline, or Spline.

•	Left-drag to draw a circle, ellipse, square or rectangle.

•	To draw a polyline, Left-click on the starting point.  For each segment, move the mouse to the end of that segment and Left-click to place an anchor point.  To erase an anchor point, Right-click to erase the last anchor point, OR Right-click on a point to remove it.  To close the area, return to the starting point and Left-click on it, or double-click anywhere to connect the last anchor point to the starting point.

•	To draw a spline, proceed as for a polyline.  Left-click on either end to create a straight segment.  Right-drag to make curved segments When you begin Right-dragging, this adds an anchor point and two control points at the beginning of the curved segment.

NOTE: Press the [Shift] key while dragging to keep horizontal or vertical alignment.

To edit an area sample:

NOTE: Editing capabilities are available for Gamma Adjust and Paint sampling.  The cursor modifier is a pencil.

•	For all area shapes, you may edit by Left-dragging a segment, OR by Left-dragging an anchor point or control point.

•	For polylines and splines:  To erase an anchor point, Right-click on the point.  To add an anchor point, Right-click on a segment where you want the point.

•	For splines:  To change a segment from straight to curved, Right-drag from its anchor point to draw out control points.  To change a segment from curved to straight: Right-click on its control points.

NOTE: Press the [Shift] key while dragging to keep horizontal or vertical alignment.

To rotate an area sample:

NOTE: Rotating capabilities are available for Gamma Adjust and Paint sampling.

Move outside the area until the rotation lever appears.  (The cursor modifier indicates rotation.)  The level will appear when the rotation axis, an anchor point, and the cursor are all in line.  Left-drag the rotation lever to rotate the area.

You may Left-drag the rotation axis, which is normally in the center of the area to move it.  It stays wherever it is moved.

To select or edit a sample color at the Color Picker:

•	Left-click the color patch (next to or below the Sampling Mode button) to access the Color Picker.

•	The color patch value is shown in the Color Picker.

•	You may select or edit a color.  See USING THE COLOR PICKER below.

•	The color you specify appears in the color patch.  For Gamma Adjust only, when you select a point or area on your picture, it will be matched as closely as possible to this color sample.

To select a sample color from the picture:

•	For Gamma Adjust only, click on either histogram to deselect all sampling options (Black, Color Match, or White).

•	Select a tool for a point (gamma adjust only) or area sample.

•	Left-click or Left-drag on your picture to take the sample.  The color of the sample appears in the color patch.

•	For Gamma Adjust only, use the sliders to make small adjustments in the hue, saturation, or value of the color.  The sample point or area from your picture will be forced to match as closely as possible the color sample plus any increments you have chosen.


Using The Color Picker

You may use the Color Picker anywhere there is a color patch.

To select or edit a color at the Color Picker:

•	Left-click the color patch to access the Color Picker.

•	The color patch value is is shown in the dialog.  In the example above, the green of medium leaves in shadow has been selected.

•	At the dialog, you may:

•	Select from the Hue By Name dropdown list: Red, Yellow, Green Cyan, Blue, or Magenta.

•	Select from the Color By Object dropdown list, for various skin tones and leaf colors.  NOTE: This is most useful for Gamma Adjust.

•	Left-drag the color sample to change it, either on the rainbow palette or on the large color area.

•	Left-click on the color area to select a sample, which can be edited.

•	Enter or edit values for Red, Green, Blue, Hue, Saturation, and/or Value, to specify a color.

The color you specify appears in the color patch.  For Gamma Adjust only, when you select a point or area on your picture, it will be matched as closely as possible to this color sample.


Selecting Color Components

Sharpening, Blurring, and Gamma Adjust all allow you to select one color component on which to do the editing action.

For Sharpening And Blurring

To select a color component for sharpening or blurring:  Left-click a color component button.  NOTE:  You may sharpen or blur color components one by one for the same picture.

Black (default setting)   This is the best all around setting for both sharpening and blurring, and yields very good results under most conditions.  Sharpening applies only to the darkest part of the image (which has very little color information).  In a human face, this image component includes hair, eye, and tooth detail which can benefit from sharpening, while ignoring skin detail which is made more prominent by sharpening.  For blurring, this yields a soft focus effect, by softening the darkest part of the image (which has no color information).

White   This sharpens or blurs the luminance component of the picture.

Red   This sharpens or blurs only the red color component.

Green   This sharpens or blurs only the green color component.

Blue   This sharpens or blurs only the blue color component.

Red, Green, and Blue   This sharpens or blurs the entire image: the red, green, and blue color components.

Cyan   This sharpens or blurs only the cyan color component.  Cyan is the inverse of red, with the black taken out.

Magenta   This sharpens or blurs only the magenta color component.  Magenta is the inverse of green, with the black taken out.

Yellow   This sharpens or blurs only the yellow color component.  Yellow is the inverse of blue, with the black taken out.

HINT:  Use the Picture Analysis feature to view each color component.  Left-click the Picture Analysis tool on the top toolbar, OR select Analyze from the Edit menu, OR select Picture Analysis from the Options menu.

For Gamma Adjustment

Color component selections can be used to correct a "color cast".  For example, a face in green-forested shadow might have a slightly green tint to the skin.  If the histogram shows that the picture is too bright, you would select the green component and decrease the gamma setting for green.  If the histogram shows that the picture is too dark, you would select magenta (red plus blue) and increase the gamma setting for magenta.

To select a color component to adjust:  Left-click a color component button.  Use [Ctrl]-Left click to combine two colors: red plus green selects yellow, red plus blue selects magenta, and green plus blue selects cyan.  The histogram shading changes to reflect the selected color.  NOTE:  You may correct color components one by one for the same picture.

Red, Green, and Blue   Left-click Red/Green/Blue to adjust red, green, and blue simultaneously.

Red   Left-click Red to adjust red/cyan balance.

Green   Left-click Green to adjust green/magenta balance.

Blue   Left-click Blue to adjust blue/yellow balance.

[Ctrl]-Left-click Red and Green to adjust yellow/blue balance.

[Ctrl]-Left-click Red and Blue to adjust magenta/green balance.

[Ctrl]-Left-click Green and Blue to adjust cyan/red balance.


Correcting By Qualifying Pixels

For the Redeye and Blemish actions on the Retouch dialog; and for the Noise and Color Shift actions on both the Retouch and the Wand dialog; you will specify a way to determine which pixels will be affected by the action.  These are called “qualifying pixels”.  For redeye, for example, you want to change only pixels that fall within a reddish range.

For these corrections, in effect pixels are “qualified” twice: once when they are evaluated based on the criteria you set, as described in this section; and once again when they are selected by a shape or a mask.  For each pixel in the image, the following questions are asked:

•	Is it in the color range that you have defined?

•	Does it fall within the selected area?

If the answer to both of these question is “yes”, then that pixel “qualifies”, and will be changed by the editing action that you select.

The corrections are made without “flattening” all texture or detail in the target areas.  For example, redeye correction does not remove catchlights or the subtle detail visible in a normal photograph showing a pupil.  Similarly, blemish correction leaves a natural variation of skin tonal values with no electronic scar or “smearing.”

Selecting Sampling Or Editing Mode

Selecting sampling mode   When the Sampling Mode button is pressed, you may take a sample in order to define the color range.  The sampled color appears in the color patch adjacent to the Sampling Mode button.

NOTE: You are automatically put into sampling mode when Noise or Color Shift is selected at the Retouch dialog.  To enter sampling mode at the Wand dialog, Left-click the 123 button, then Left-click the Sampling Mode button; use the shape tools at the sampling display to select your sample.

Selecting Editing Mode   For actions at the Retouch dialog, just to the right of the Sampling Mode button is an Editing Action button.  When this button is pressed, the image is available for editing.  At the Wand dialog, use the 123 button to return to the normal editing wand display from sampling mode.  Use a shape tool to select your area for correction.

Defining A Color Range To Qualify Pixels

Pixels which are qualified to be affected by an editing action are determined by color.  The following methods can be used, alone or in combination, to specify the color range for qualifying pixels.  HINT: Between selecting a color from the Color Picker and taking a color sample from the picture, taking a sample is the preferred method.

Use Or Edit Initial Color Guess   For Redeye and Blemish Only

You are automatically put into editing mode when Redeye or Blemish is selected.  In addition, dPhoto has made an initial guess about the color of qualifying pixels.  You may edit this guess at the Color Picker.

For Redeye, no further hue or sample need be specified.  NOTE:  Dogs have “green eye” or “yellow eye”.  If correcting dogs’ eyes, select a Hue of Yellows or Greens to correct eye color.

For Blemish, you would not want to select a Hue from the Color Picker, though you might wish to select a sample (select sampling mode first).  You are automatically put into editing mode when Blemish is selected.

Select Or Edit Color At The Color Picker

Left-click on the color patch (adjacent to the Sampling Mode button) to select the color range for pixels that are to be affected.  The Color Picker appears.  Select a Hue By Name from the dropdown list: Red, Yellow, Green, Cyan, Blue, Magenta.  OR,  You may select a color using the slider on the rainbow palette.  If yellow is selected, for example, only pixels in the yellow range will be affected when the editing action is performed.

If you take a sample, the color of the last sample you took appears in the color patch.

Take A Point Or Area Sample

In sampling mode, Left-click on the photograph to select pixels(s) which provide a sample.  Qualifications for pixels will be based on an average of the color values found within the point sample.

In sampling mode, select a shape tool.  Draw an area on the photograph to specify a sample.  Qualifications for pixels will be based on the range of color values found within the area sample.

See TAKING SAMPLES above.

Use The Range Indicators To Refine Color Range

When the 123 button is pressed, the range indicators are displayed, which show the currently specified color range for qualifying pixels.  For Hue, Saturation, and Value, the Min value shows the minimum value for the color range, and the Max value shows the maximum value for the range.

Blend Min values are 30 pixels less for Hue and 15 pixels less for Saturation and Value than the selected pixel or mean value of the sample.  Blend Max values are 30 pixels more for Hue, and 15 pixels more for Saturation and Value than the selected pixel or mean value of the sample.  However, any value for Blend Min and Blend Max may be set.

For advanced users:  You may adjust the numbers in the Range Indicator text boxes to adjust the specified color range.

Define Blend Qualifying Pixels

The minimum and maximum Blend values are blended down to no effect over a 15 to 30 pixel range on either end of the range.  Think of the blend area as a slope, beginning with the minimum or maximum in the range, and ending with 0, 15 to 30 pixels farther along on the continuum.  These pixels (“blend qualifying pixels”) qualify for partial modification.  Depending on where a pixel falls on this slope, that percentage of the editing change will be performed on the pixel.  For example, if a pixel is halfway down the slope, the modification will be applied at 50% strength; if it is three-quarters down the slope, at 25%, and so on.

Selecting The Area Within Which Pixels Are Changed

Once you have determined the qualifying color requirements for pixels to be changed, you may select an area on your photograph to correct.

•	Make sure that editing is enabled.

•	Select a shape tool.

•	Draw an area on the image.  Each pixel within this selected area will be tested to see whether it falls into the color range for qualifying pixels.  If it falls into the range, the pixel will be modified when the action is performed.

How Pixels Are Changed

Once you have specified both the color range and the area to correct, you have determined the qualifying pixels.  These are the pixels which will be modified when the action is performed.

After you have drawn the area to correct, the changes to be made are shown on the photograph’s display.  For each of the actions, one or more further editing options may be specified, as described below.

Remember that blend qualifying pixels qualify for partial modification; depending on where a pixel falls on the blend slope, that percentage of the editing change will be performed on the pixel.

Brightness Scale   For Redeye and Blemish only

This option enables you to specify how to scale the brightness for the qualifying pixels.  This option appears for Redeye and for Blemish.  You may specify a number from –100 to 100, with negative values scaling brightness down, and positive numbers scaling brightness up.  The initial value for Redeye is -85, which scales the brightness of qualifying pixels down by 85%.  For Blemish, the initial value is 25, which scales the brightness of qualifying pixels up by 25%.

Hue Ratio, Saturation Ratio, and Value Ratio   For Noise only

You must enter a value for one of these settings in order to edit noise.  A value from 0 to 100 may be entered for one or more of these options to reduce the variability of the qualifying pixels, for that option, by the entered percentage.  For example, entering 50 for Saturation Ratio compresses the total spread of saturation values for the qualifying pixels, reducing the spread by half.  If you imagine a histogram of the qualifying pixels, the width would be compressed to half the original width, reducing the variability of the qualifying pixels.

Hue Offset, Saturation Scale, and Value Scale   For Color Shift only

You must enter a value for one of these settings in order to make a color shift.

•	For Value Scale, you may enter a number from –100 to 100 which darkens (negative number) or lightens (positive number) qualifying pixels.

•	For Saturation Scale, you may enter a number from –100 to 100 which decreases saturation, making colors more “pastel” (negative number), or increases saturation, making colors richer (positive number), for qualifying pixels.

•	For Hue Offset, you may enter a number from –359 to 359 which is added to the current hue value of qualifying pixels, to offset the hue.

NOTE:  Hue values lie on a color wheel, and range from 0 to 360, 0 and 360 being the same color (red).  The negative or positive sign on a number entered for Hue Offset determines which way you travel around the wheel.  If you imagine values on the wheel going clockwise, with 0 (or 360) at the bottom and 180 at the top, then a positive number moves you clockwise around the wheel, and a negative number moves you counterclockwise.  For example, when you add 230 to 60, from 60 you would move 230 degrees clockwise, giving you the Hue Offset of 290.  When you enter –230 for Hue Offset, from 60 you would move 230 degrees counterclockwise, giving you the Hue Offset of 190.

Simple method:

Find New Hue Value with this formula

New Hue Value = Hue Value + Hue Offset

Then add or subtract 360 to or from the New Hue Value until it is in the range 0 to 359.

Selecting Brush Qualities  You may specify a brush profile, opacity, and hardness for the brush stroke (see above).  These options are available with the 123 button unpressed.


Doing Extensive Editing - Avanced Track
Doing Extensive Editing - Advanced Track

For those users who will be making more than just a few scriptable changes to their pictures, order of operation and how to save your changes become important issues.  If you do not want to lose or degrade any of your original picture data, AND if you are making some changes that cannot be saved to a picture’s script, AND if you are making significant editing changes using several different functions, then the following are recommended:

•	Work with a single picture at a time.

•	Commit and then save a snapshot after each editing action.  In this way you create a series of copies that reflect stages in your editing process.  You can go back to an earlier stage if need be, and restore a snapshot.

•	Do not use the scripting features at the Adjust dialog (the Apply As Script Item button).  If you have previously made scriptable changes to a file, these may be cleared.  A color-governing item clears a color-governing script item.  A geometric-governing item clears a geometric-governing script item.

Step 1.  Correct for Redeye, Blemish, or Noise.   You may do one or more of the following.

Redeye

AND/OR

Blemish

AND/OR

Noise	Clears color-governing script item, if any

Step 2.  Make overall color corrections.   Use one or more of the following actions.

Contrast Optimize	Clears color-governing script item, if any

AND/OR

Gamma Adjust	Clears color-governing script item, if any

AND/OR

Saturation Adjust	Clears color-governing script item, if any

AND/OR

Color Balance	Clears color-governing script item, if any

AND/OR

Color Correct	Clears color-governing script item, if any

AND/OR

Color Shift	Clears color-governing script item, if any

Step 3.  Do any sophisticated overall color effects you want.   You may do one or both of these actions.

Masked Paint

AND/OR

Color Mix

Step 4.  Crop your picture.    You may crop your picture.

Crop	Replaces Scale.  Clears geometric-governing script item, if any

Step 5.  Scale, rotate, and/or correct the perspective of your picture.    You may do one or more of these actions.

Scale	Replaces Crop.  Clears geometric-governing script item, if any

AND/OR

Rotate	Clears geometric-governing script item, if any

AND/OR

Perspective Correct	Clears geometric-governing script item, if any

Step 6.  Sharpen or blur your picture.    You may sharpen or blur your picture.  This should be the last editing step you do.

Sharpen

OR

Blur


Using The Retouch Dialog

There are fourteen editing actions which are available at the Retouch dialog.  These are explained in the sections below.  See EDITING FUNDAMENTALS for instructions and options for editing, including COMMON DIALOG FEATURES for descriptions of additional dialog features.  See SCRIPTING AND SAVING, for information on saving editing changes made at the Retouch dialog.

Many of the actions available at this dialog use the Brush tool to “brush on” the effect, correcting the parts of the image under the brush.

Stamping; redeye, blemish, and noise reduction; and color shifting do not use a brush.  Instead, you draw an area to correct using the Circle, Ellipse, Square, Rectangle, Polyline, or Spline tool.

To access the retouching features:  Select Retouch Selected... from the Edit menu and select and action from the pullout menu.  OR, Right-click on a thumbnail and select Retouch.  From the Retouch dialog which appears, the following editing actions are available:

•	Retouch

•	Clone

•	Stamp

•	Redeye Reduction

•	Blemish Reduction

•	Noise Reduction

•	Contrast Adjustment

•	Saturation Adjustment

•	Color Shift

•	Color Mix

•	Burn

•	Dodge

•	Blur

•	Sharpen

Retouch Dialog Options

What You See Is What You Get   Actions are “what you see is what you get” at the Retouch dialog; the action is displayed immediately as you take it.

Show Additional Settings   Click the 123 button to bring up more information or additional settings for adjustment, which are initially hidden.  NOTE: In the illustrations below, the 123 button has been clicked to show additional settings.

Using The Brush Tool   Not applicable for Stamp

Left-drag to paint with the brush.  Right-drag to erase previously painted areas.  Left-click to “dab” with the brush.  Right-click to dab with eraser.

Under the Edited/Original status bar are options for actions which use the brush tool.  These options determine the width, shape, edge profile, opacity and hardness of brush strokes.

Brush Type Options   Not applicable for Stamp, Redeye, Blemish, Noise, or Color Shift

Selecting Width Of Round Brush   The buttons showing numbers in circles specify the diameter of the round brush in pixels.  The initial setting is 5.  You may scroll through these settings using the scroll arrows (single arrow jumps by one in the indicated direction, double arrow jumps by “page”).   NOTE: You may use this round brush OR you may define and use a custom brush as described below.

Defining And Using A Custom Brush

1)	Click the Allow Brush Definition button.

2)	Click on the desired brush shape option.

3)	On the image, draw and/or edit the shape to define the brush.

4)	To use the custom brush:  Click the Use Custom Brush button.

Brush Attributes   Not applicable for Stamp

Specifying Brush Profile   The four profile options enable you to define the fade out rate on the defined edges of the brush stroke (either round or custom), from the center of the brush stroke outwards.  From left to right the buttons specify gradually sooner rates of fade out.  NOTE: Edges are defined using the Hardness option.

Opacity   You may adjust the opacity of the brush stroke with the Opacity slider.  Opacity is the “thickness” of the paint when the brush stroke is applied.

Hardness   You may define the edges of the brush stroke with the Hardness slider, specifying when the paint begins to fade out at the edges of the brush.  A higher value for hardness means that the fade starts closer to the brush edge.

Redeye, Blemish, Noise, and Color Shift Options

For the Redeye, Blemish, Noise, and Color Shift actions, you will specify a way to determine which pixels will be affected by the action.  This is described in CORRECTING BY QUALIFYING PIXELS.


Retouch
Retouching

Retouching enables you to select a color and paint over areas of your image with the brush.

To select paint color:

•	Click the Sampling Mode button to select a paint color from the image.  Click on the image to select a paint color, which appears in the color patch just below the Sampling Mode button.

AND/OR

•	Click the color patch to select or edit the retouching paint color at the Color Picker.

See TAKING SAMPLES for more information about selecting a color.

To specify paint settings:  Select RGB to specify Red, Green, and Blue percentages using the sliders.  OR  Select HSV to specify Hue, Saturation, and Value using the sliders.

To erase retouched areas:

To erase a retouched (but uncommitted) area, Right-drag over the area, OR move the brush over the area and Right-click.


Cloning

Use the Clone feature to copy one part of your image to another part.  Once you have specified the spatial relationship between source and destination, you can “brush on” to the new location the image material to clone.  The best way to learn how cloning works is to try it.  HINT: When experimenting with cloning, enlarge your brush initially to better see how cloning operates.

To define the source/destination relationship:  In this first step, you are defining the spatial relationship between the source of your cloning material and the destination for that cloning material.  You will end up creating a linked pair of shapes.  The source is the part of the image you want to clone; its shape has a dashed outline.  The destination is the area you wish to clone to; its shape has a solid outline.  The shapes are linked, and can be moved on your image simply by moving the cursor.

There are several ways to create your source/destination relationship.  On your image:

•	When no source/destination relationship has yet been defined, Left-click on the center of the source.  Move the cursor to the center of the destination and Left-click to clone the brush shape, OR Left-drag to brush on cloned material.

OR

•	To begin a new definition, [Alt]-Left-click on the center of the source;  move the cursor to the center of the destination and Left-click to clone the brush shape, OR Left-drag to brush on cloned material.

OR

•	When no source/destination relationship has yet been defined, Left-drag from the center of the source to the center of the destination and release the mouse button.  The source/destination relationship is defined, but no material has yet been cloned.

OR

•	To begin a new definition,  [Alt]-Left-drag from the center of the source to the center of the destination and release the mouse button.  The source/destination relationship is defined, but no material has yet been cloned.

To clone:  Left-drag to clone from the source area to the destination area.  Note that you may reposition your source/destination shapes by moving the cursor without dragging.  Wherever you begin Left-dragging, the part of the image that lies under the source shape will be cloned to the part of the image under the destination shape.  NOTE: When part of the brush seems flattened, part of the source is usually off the picture.

To erase:  Right-drag with the destination shape over the (uncommitted) area to erase, OR move the brush over the area and Right-click to dab with the eraser.


Stamping

The Stamp feature enables you to transfer part of an image onto itself or onto another image.

To use the Stamp feature:

•	Select a shape tool.  Draw and edit a shape to fit over the area of the image you want to pick up the stamp from.

•	[Alt]-Left-click within the shape, OR Left-click the Load Stamp button, to pick up stamp from the image.  A stamp control box appears within the stamp, or in some cases out to the side.

•	Move the shape where you want to stamp by Left-dragging from within the shape but not in the stamp control box.

•	Left-click within the stamp control box, OR Left-click the Apply Stamp button, to put the stamp onto your image.

•	To erase a previously stamped (uncommitted) area, move the stamp over the area and Right-click within the stamp control box.

•	To clear the current stamp, [Alt]-Right-click within the stamp but not within the box, OR Left-click the Clear Stamp button.


Reducing Redeye

The redeye action reduces redeye quickly and easily, without removing catchlights or the subtle detail visible in a normal photograph showing a pupil.

To correct redeye:  When the redeye button is pressed, the image is available for redeye editing.  A default color range is automatically selected, which works well for redeye in people.  NOTE: You would not normally use the sampling feature with Redeye.  Select a shape tool (typically, the Ellipse tool works best), and draw an area to correct (the selection does not have to be accurate).  As soon as you release the mouse button, the correction is applied to the drawn area and displayed on the photograph.

To select qualifying pixels based on Color:   Optional (do before editing)   If you are correcting “yellow eye” or “green eye” in animals, Left-click the color patch.  At the Color Picker, you may select Yellow or Green from the Hue By Name dropdown list.

To specify Brightness Scale:   Optional (do before editing)   To change the scale for brightness for the qualifying pixels, you may specify a number from –100 to 100.  The initial value for Redeye is -85, which scales the brightness of qualifying pixels down by 85%.

See CORRECTING BY QUALIFYING PIXELS.


Eliminating Blemishes

Use the Blemish feature to soften or eliminate blemishes, leaving a natural variation of skin tonal values with no electronic scar or “smearing”.

To select sampling or editing

When this button is pressed, you may take a sample.  Left-click on the image to select a point sample; OR select a shape tool and draw an area sample on the picture.  The sampled color appears in the color patch to the left of the Sampling Mode button.  (See TAKING SAMPLES.)

When this button is pressed, the image is available for blemish editing.  Select a shape tool and draw an area to correct.  If no sample has been taken, a default color range is automatically selected, which works well for blemishes in Caucasians.  NOTE: You should not normally select a value for Color when correcting blemishes.  As soon as you release the mouse button, the correction is applied to the drawn area and displayed on the photograph.

To specify Brightness Scale:   Optional (do before editing)   To change the scale for brightness for the qualifying pixels, you may specify a number from –100 to 100.  The initial value for Blemish is 25, which scales the brightness of qualifying pixels up by 25%.

See CORRECTING BY QUALIFYING PIXELS.


Noise Reduction (Retouch)

You can reduce “noise” (the variability of pixels) using the Noise action.  NOTE: You can also correct for noise within a mask selection at the Wand dialog.

To select sampling or editing

When this button is pressed, you may take a sample.  Left-click on the image to select a point sample; OR select a shape tool and draw an area sample on the picture.  The sampled color appears in the color patch to the left of the Sampling Mode button.   (See TAKING SAMPLES.)

To edit noise:  When this button is pressed, the image is available for noise editing.  Select a shape tool and draw an area to correct; OR to reduce noise for the entire picture, select the Rectangle tool and double-click on the picture.

Enter a value for Hue Ratio, Saturation Ratio, and/or Value Ratio.  IMPORTANT: You must enter a value for one of these settings in order to edit noise.  Enter a number from 0 to 100, for one or more of these options, to reduce the variability of the qualifying pixels, for that option, by the entered percentage.

To select qualifying pixels based on color:   Optional (do before editing)

•	Left-click the color patch.  At the Color Picker, select a color range from the Hue By Name dropdown list: Red, Yellow, Green, Cyan, Blue, or Magenta.  (See TAKING SAMPLES.)

OR

•	Select a point or area sample to determine color range for qualifying pixels.  (This is the preferred method, over selecting based on Color.)

See CORRECTING BY QUALIFYING PIXELS.


Contrast Adjust (Retouch)

Use the brush to increase or decrease contrast and value in specific areas.  NOTE:  To optimize contrast for the entire image, use the Contrast Optimize action on the Adjust dialog.  You can also adjust contrast within a mask selection at the Wand dialog.

To adjust contrast and/or value for black, mid-tone, and white values:  Left-click the Shadows button (black dot) to adjust most in the shadows, OR Left-click the Mid-tones button (gray dot) to adjust most in the mid-tones, OR Left-click the Highlights button (white dot) to adjust most in the highlights.

Use the sliders to adjust Contrast and/or Value (middle is 0).  To decrease, move slider left; to increase, move slider right.  NOTE: Decreasing Value makes it darker; increasing makes it lighter.


Saturation Adjust (Retouch)

Use the brush to make colors more vivid or tone them down, for specified areas on your image.

NOTE:  To adjust saturation for the entire image, use the Saturation Adjust action on the Adjust dialog.   You can also adjust saturation within a mask selection at the Wand dialog.

To adjust Saturation:  Move the slider left to decrease Saturation, making colors less vivid.  Move the slider right to increase Saturation, making colors more vivid.

To adjust Value:  Move the slider left to decrease Value, darkening the area.  Move the slider right to increase Value, lightening the area.


Color Shift (Retouch)

Use the Color Shift feature to adjust color for certain areas, or for the entire image.  For example, photographs taken of moss on a rainy spring day typically show very dull greens for the moss.  The camera has correctly recorded the subdued or reduced contrast range of such days, while your perceptions have adjusted to see very saturated greens.  Scaling the saturation of the greens up by about 75% can match the saturated greens you actually saw.

 NOTE: You can also shift color within a mask selection at the Wand dialog.

To select sampling or editing

When the Sampling Mode button is pressed, you may take a sample.  Left-click on the image to select a point sample; OR select a shape tool and draw an area sample on the picture.  The sampled color appears in the color patch to the left of the Sampling Mode button.  See TAKING SAMPLES.

When the Color Shift button is pressed, the image is available for color shifting.  Select a shape tool and draw an area to color shift.

 See CORRECTING BY QUALIFYING PIXELS.


Color Mix (Retouch)

Use the brush for color mixing, to enhance or alter the color components based on the values of the other components.  You can take a percentage of one color component and use it to create part of or enhance another color component; for example, you could fortify the red component with information from the green component.

Use this feature to make creative color adjustments; create high quality grayscale, sepia-toned, or other tinted images; strengthen weak color components; and swap or duplicate color components.

NOTE: You can also mix color within a mask selection at the Wand dialog.

Click to access color mix values (see illustration below).  NOTE: You must adjust one or more of these values for any color mix effect to occur.

Adjusting The Color Mix

You can adjust the color mix for the Red, Green, Blue, and Luminance color components.  Each color component consists of three values: Red, Green, and Blue.  Initially, the Red component has 100 for its red value, and nothing for its green and blue values.  Similarly, Green has 100 for its green value and Blue has 100 for its blue value, with nothing for the other two values.  For Luminance, no values are filled in.

For any of the values in any color component, you may enter a number from –200 to 200 to specify the percentage of that color in the color mix for that component.

For each color component, you can also enter a Scale in the form of a number between –200 and 200.  This number is a scale factor which is applied, as a percentage, to the color mix for that color component.

For the Luminance color component, there are two other options in addition to the above options.  For Apply, you may enter a number between –200 and 200, which gives the percentage to apply, based on the change between the original and the newly-computed value for the color component (see the formula below).  You may also specify an application mode: Normal, Lighten, or Darken.  Normal applies the new color mix to each pixel.  Lighten applies the color mix only to pixels where the change makes the pixels lighter.  Darken applies the new color mix only to pixels where the change makes the pixels darker.

The Grayscale option is available to create higher quality grayscale pictures.

The Color Component Mix Formula

Colorout = (((Redin*(Redmix/100)+(Greenin*(Greenmix/100)+(Bluein*(Bluemix/100)))*(Scale/100)

Colorout is the final result of the selected color mixing.  This defines new values for each color based on some mix of existing color values.  For example, for an early morning cloud picture, the clouds can be given a dawn appearance by enhancing the red component by an amount proportional to green (say 30).

The Luminance Formula

Luminance = (((Redout*(Redmix/100)+(Greenout*(Greenmix/100)+(Blueout*(Bluemix/100)))*(Scale/100)

Luminance is the final result of the color mixing for Luminance.  By mixing varying quantities of the color components to determine gray values, key colors in your image that vary in color but not in luminance can be made distinct in the eventual grayscale image.

To specify a color mix:  For the Red, Blue, Green, and Luminance color components, you may fill in or change values in the red, blue, and green columns to adjust the color mix.  Enter a number from –200 to 200.

For each option, you may enter a number between –200 and 200 for the Scale factor

For the Luminance option, you may enter a number between –200 and 200 for Apply.  You may also select an application mode: Normal (the default), Lighten, or Darken.


Burn (Retouch)

Burning makes the part of the image darker where the brush goes.  NOTE: You can also burn within a mask selection at the Wand dialog.

To adjust black, mid-tone, and white values:  Left-click the Shadows button (black dot) to burn most in the shadows, OR Left-click the Mid-tones button (gray dot) to burn most in the mid-tones, OR Left-click the Highlights button (white dot) to burn most in the highlights.

To adjust Strength   You may adjust Strength, the degree of darkening when the burn effect is applied.  The initial strength is 25%.


Dodge (Retouch)

Dodging makes  the part of the image lighter where the brush goes.  NOTE: You can also dodge within a mask selection at the Wand dialog.

To adjust black, mid-tone, and white values:  Left-click the Shadows button (black dot) to dodge most in the shadows, OR Left-click the Mid-tones button (gray dot) to dodge most in the mid-tones, OR Left-click the Highlights button (white dot) to dodge most in the highlights.

To adjust Strength   You may adjust Strength, the degree of lightening when the dodge effect is applied.  The initial strength is 25%.


Sharpen (Retouch)

Use the brush to sharpen areas on your photo.  The smaller a photo is printed, the more important sharpening is.  Sharpening can add snap and crispness to hair, eyes, and other important image details.

NOTE:  You may sharpen the entire image at the Adjust dialog, or within a mask selection at the Wand dialog.

To select a color component for sharpening:  Left-click a color component button (see SELECTING COLOR COMPONENTS).  NOTE:  You may sharpen color components one by one for the same picture.

To adjust sharpening variables:  Optional   You may adjust Amount %, Radius, and Threshold.  See COMMON DIALOG FEATURES.


Blur (Retouch)

Use the brush to blur areas on hour photo.  Blurring can be used to soften an image, giving it a soft focus appeal.  It may also be used to reduce the prominence of image noise (sky noise, for example) or features of images that need to be softened for cosmetic reasons (skin detail, for example).

NOTE: You may blur the entire image at the Adjust dialog, or blur within a mask selection at the Wand dialog.

To select a color component for blurring:  Left-click a color component button (SELECTING COLOR COMPONENTS).  NOTE:  You may blur color components one by one for the same picture.

To adjust blurring variables:  Optional   You may adjust Weight % and Radius (pixels).  See COMMON DIALOG FEATURES.


Using The Adjust Dialog

There are eight editing actions which are available at the Adjust dialog.  These are explained in the sections below.  See EDITING FUNDAMENTALS, for instructions and options for editing, including COMMON DIALOG FEATURES for descriptions of additional dialog features.

All actions at the Adjust dialog are scriptable.  To use the scripting feature, before switching to another action, you must save that action’s corrections as a scriptable item.  See SCRIPTING AND SAVING.

To access the adjusting features:  Select Adjust Selected... from the Edit menu and select an action from the pullout menu.  OR,  Right-click on a thumbnail and select Adjust.   From the Adjust dialog which appears, the following editing actions are available:

•	Contrast Optimize

•	Gamma Adjust

•	Crop

•	Scale

•	Saturation Adjust (overall image)

•	Color Balance

•	Blur (overall image)

•	Sharpen (overall image)

Using Scripts At The Adjust Dialog

In addition to the saving options available at the other dialogs, at the Adjust dialog there is the option of saving editing actions as script items.  When a script correction is applied, it becomes part of a set of commands that remains with the picture.  Script corrections are not seen when the picture is on the thumbnail (they can be seen at the Zoom View window).  A picture’s script is applied whenever you print the picture.

See USING AND SAVING SCRIPTS for a detailed description of the advantages of scripts and how to use them.

To Apply Scripts At The Adjust Dialog

To apply a correction as a script item:  After making each editing correction and before selecting another action, Left-click the Apply As Script Item button.  The correction is added to the picture as a script item.

IMPORTANT:  Do not use a Save button!  Instead, when you have made all editing changes and have applied each one as a script item, exit the dialog.  To save corrections as part of the picture, use one of the Save functions on the Script menu.


Optimizing Contrast (Adjust)

The Contrast Optimize feature provides an easy and efficient way to optimize contrast, and is sufficient adjustment for most “snapshot” pictures taken with a digital camera.  You can choose to optimize in either of two ways: you can optimize according to overall luminance values (the default setting), or you can optimize red, green, and blue colors separately.

Very few digital cameras will use the full range of available contrast for every image.  Typical digital cameras will leave from 1/4 to as high as 1/2 of the available contrast range unoccupied on many images.  These images will seem dull or flat.  Optimizing the contrast will add “snap” to these images, making them livelier.

NOTE:  If your image has a substantial color cast or if you need a little more control over the optimization process, use the Gamma Adjust feature.

HINT:  You can optimize contrast for all of your selected pictures in one step, using the Contrast Optimize feature on the Script menu.

NOTE: You may also adjust contrast with a brush on the Retouch dialog, or within a selection mask at the Wand dialog.

Using histograms:  Two histograms appear at the top left.  The top histogram shows the original settings of the selected picture; the histogram below it shows the current adjustments.  The histograms show the original luminance value distribution and the optimized luminance value distribution.  The horizontal axis of each histogram represents the luminance values from darkest (0) at the left to brightest (255) at the right; the vertical axis represents the total number of pixels with that value.  To see the count, dark percentile, and light percentile for a particular value, leave the cursor for a few seconds at the level of that value on the histogram.  See USING HISTOGRAMS.

Adjusting Highlight and Shadow Clips:  You may adjust the outer limits between which the contrast is optimized.  Initial settings are 0.5% for Shadow Clip, and 0.5% for Highlight Clip; the bottom (darkest) and top (brightest) 0.5% are not included in the area.  You may increase the excluded area up to 2%, or decrease it to 0%, for either or both clips.

Optimizing according to luminance values:  When the Luminance option is selected (the default), contrast is optimized based on dPhoto’s determination of the darkest and lightest luminance values for the picture.  These values are then scaled to 0 and 255 respectively, and all values in between are scaled proportionally to values between 0 and 255.  The clip settings work by ignoring the darkest 0.5% and the lightest 0.5% of luminance values for the purpose of finding the darkest and lightest pixels.  For example, if there are 1000 pixels in the image, dPhoto will select the sixth darkest and the sixth lightest pixels as the values to scale to 0 and 255.  The six darkest pixels will all be scaled to 0, while the six lightest pixels will all be scaled to 255.

Optimizing red, green, and blue values separately:  When the RGB option is selected, each of the three colors is optimized separately.  Select this option when the image has a red, green, or blue color cast that you need to correct.  NOTE:  This will not always correct the cast properly; for more control over individual color components, use the Gamma Adjust feature.

Using Highlight Optimize and Shadow Optimize:  Initially, both Highlights and Shadows are selected, as indicated by the check marks to the right of the Clip percentages.  You can uncheck Highlight Optimize to optimize only shadows, OR uncheck Shadow Optimize to optimize only highlights.  NOTE: At least one option must be checked.  This option is used in images that have no true blacks or whites.  For example, a cloud picture may have no true black value.  Optimizing the shadows would make the image too dark, therefore you should uncheck Shadow Optimize.


Gamma Adjust
Gamma Adjustment

When you have a picture that is too light or too dark, has washed out or deeply shadowed areas of interest, or whose colors are not appearing accurately, you can use the gamma adjustment features in dPhoto to correct these problems for display onscreen and for printing.  The adjustments you make using this feature pertain to the visual display of the picture onscreen, and the adjusted picture should also print correctly on most printers.  The Gamma Adjust dialog is explained in detail below.

HINT:  If you are adjusting contrast, try the Optimize Contrast feature first; this is the easiest way to adjust contrast, and is often sufficient.  If this adjustment doesn’t give you the desired results, use the Gamma Adjust feature.  The advanced Color Correct feature can be used as an alternative for more complex correction.

Where these gamma adjustments are not yielding adequate printed results, you may use the Gamma Series feature on the Options menu at the Print Preview dialog.  The Gamma Series feature allows you to print a series showing a range of gamma settings for a picture.  You may wish to use this feature for tricky pictures or situations, printing out a range of gamma settings to find the most appropriate setting.

Generally, gamma adjustment "expands" (making more visually distinct) one range of values at the expense of another range of values.  Suppose you have a picture of a person's face against the sky with the face shaded.  In this situation, the highlights will consist of the sky, and the details of the sky are usually less important than the shadow details of the face.  Adjusting the gamma setting greater than 1, the highlights will be "compressed", making them visually less distinct; while the shadows will be "expanded", making shadow detail visually more distinct.  This adjustment would show the details in the face more clearly, and the details in the sky less clearly.

Working With Scanned Images

Scanners can produce some of the most frustratingly bad digital images imaginable.  The scanned colors can be anywhere from irritatingly close but unusable to ludicrously off color.  The secret to correcting those colors is similar to the strategy for solving crossword puzzles: find objects within the picture whose color values you already know.  So quickly now, what color should a white shirt, snow, or midday clouds be?  If you answered white, you already know how to eliminate the highlight color cast in many images.

The Gamma Adjust dialog gives you a convenient tool for forcing those known colors within your image to their correct values.  For the overwhelming majority of off color images, the other colors will fall effortlessly into place.

Getting Skin Tones Right

The great majority of pictures include people as the main subject of interest.  The Gamma Adjust feature offers a way to color balance your picture by matching skin tones on the picture to samples taken from professionally corrected images.  In the large majority of images, this will make the other colors in the image drop into place.

Adjusting Gamma Settings

Under the histograms the three shaded bands show the current black, gamma, and white values for red, green, and blue.  These are the values which you can adjust, in the following two ways.

The recommended way, if it is possible, is to adjust the black, color match, and/or white points for the picture by sampling from the picture.  Black sampling requires that there be a true black on your picture; white sampling requires a true white.  You may also adjust black, gamma, and white values using the control points on the histogram (see USING HISTOGRAMS).  You can use these methods alone or in combination.

If the picture is too light and you wish to fill in detail in the washed out parts, decrease the gamma value.  Gamma values less than 1.0 “expand” the highlight (lighter) areas and “compress” the shadow (darker) areas.

If the picture is too dark and you wish to fill in detail in the shadowed parts, increase the gamma value.  Gamma values greater than 1.0 “expand” the shadow (darker) areas and “compress” the highlight (lighter) areas.

If your color is looking very close but needs minor tinkering, use the three sliders to the right of the adjustment settings to adjust Hue, Saturation, and Value settings by very small increments.

If the skin tone, for example, is too yellow, decrease the Hue to increase skin pinkness.  Use the Saturation slider to increase or decrease saturation.  To darken the image, decrease Value; to lighten the image, increase Value.

Adjust Settings Using Control Points On The Histogram

Three control points appear on the (upper) histogram for the original picture.  For the selected color component(s), the left control point (a cyan vertical line, with adjustment point at the bottom) governs the darkest values; the middle control point (a green vertical line, with adjustment point at the top) governs the gamma values, and the right control point (a cyan vertical line, with adjustment point at the bottom) governs the lightest values for the picture.  See USING HISTOGRAMS.

Left-drag an adjustment point to adjust a setting.  Gamma values can range from 0.25 to 4.0.  Black and white values range from 0 to 255 (black can’t be greater than white).

Selecting A Color Component To Adjust

Left-click a color component button to select Red/Green/Blue, Red, Green, or Blue.  [Ctrl]-Left click to select a second color in order to combine two colors: red plus green selects yellow, red plus blue selects magenta, and green plus blue selects cyan.  You may adjust the component using an adjustment point.  The histogram shading changes to reflect the selected color.

NOTE:  You may correct color components one by one for the same picture.  See SELECTING COLOR COMPONENTS.

Adjusting Settings With Black, Color Match, And White Samples

You may adjust black, gamma, and white settings by redefining black, color match, and white values.  If you have a true black, a true white, or an identifiable color (recommended), you can define settings with samples. TAKING SAMPLES.

When you take a sample from your picture, you are selecting a representative sample of the colors whose values you wish to change.

About Defining Settings With Samples

When you select a point on your photograph to be defined as “black”, that pixel and all darker pixels will be rendered as absolute black.  Your picture must have something on it that should be represented as truly black, such as very deep shadow.  Likewise, when you select a point on your photograph to be defined as “white”, that pixel and all brighter pixels will be rendered as absolute white.  Again, your picture must have something on it that should be  represented as truly white, such as snow, a white shirt, or white clouds.

Redefining black and/or white on your picture affects Red, Green, and Blue unequally for each color.  When redefining black, the pixel value of your sample will be rendered as a pixel value of zero, as will all lower pixel values.  When redefining white, the pixel value of your sample will be rendered as a pixel value of 255, as will all higher pixel values.

Note that both of these tools tend to “flatten” detail or texture in image areas with values similar to the point samples.

You can also match an identifiable color.  You may select from named hues, various skin tone choices, and green leaves to match.  Or, you may begin with a color from your picture.  then use the sliders to make small adjustments in the color.

Choosing A Sampling Option

You may choose from three sampling options: Black, White, or Color matching.  For color match, the color you specify appears in the color patch.  When you select a point or area on your picture, it will be matched as closely as possible to this color sample.

You may Left-click on the color patch to show, select, or edit its values in the Color Picker.  (NOTE: Editing of Black and White match samples is for dPhoto “black belt” users only.)

The Color Match sampling option can be used to correct identifiable color values.  You may select your sample either from the Color Picker (which offers named hues, various skin tone choices, and green leaves to match) or from your picture.  You can then make make small adjustments in the color using the Hue, Saturation, and Value sliders.

Making Small Incremental Adjustments

Use the sliders to increase or decrease by very small increments Hue, Saturation, and/or Value settings.  Move the slider right to increase the setting; move it left to decrease the setting.

To Adjust Black And White Values

•	Left-click the Set Image Black Point button (the black dot to the left of the black patch).

•	Select a sample point or area on your picture to define as black.  dPhoto will attempt to force pixels like those sampled as close to the values of the black patch as possible.

•	Left-click the Set Image White Point button (the white dot to the left of the white patch).

•	Select a point or area on your picture to define as white.  dPhoto will attempt to force pixels like those sampled as close to the values of the white patch as possible.

The displayed picture shows the selected settings.

You may retake samples as many times as needed.

To Adjust Gamma Values  --  For Major Adjustment

•	Left-click the Set Image Color Match button (the gray dot to the left of the color patch).

•	Left-click the color patch (to the right of the gray dot) to go to the Color Picker where you can select or edit a color.  The Color By Object dropdown list contains colors for various skin tones and leaf colors.  The specified color appears in the color patch.

•	Left-click the Match Current Sample tool.

•	Select a point or area shape tool.

•	Select a representative sample of the colors whose values you wish to change.

•	You may adjust Hue, Saturation, and/or Value to fine tune your color.  The displayed picture shows the selected settings.

Pixels on your picture like those sampled will be forced to match as closely as possible the color patch plus any increments you have chosen.  NOTE:  If you do not like your sample for a setting, simply retake the sample.

To Adjust Gamma Values  --  For Fine Tuning Adjustments

•	Left-click the Set Image Color Match button (the gray dot).

•	Left-click the Sampling Mode button.

•	Select a point or area shape tool.

•	Take a sample from your picture of an area whose color value is essentially correct but needs fine tuning.  The color of the sample appears in the color patch.

•	Left-click the Match Current Sample tool.

•	Select the same point or shape tool, and take a sample in the same area you sampled before.

•	You may adjust Hue, Saturation, and/or Value to fine tune your color.  The displayed picture shows the selected settings.

Pixels on your picture like those sampled will be forced to match as closely as possible the color patch plus any increments you have chosen.  NOTE:  If you do not like your sample for a setting, simply retake the sample.

To Adjust Color For Faces

Select the color of the face as follows:

•	Select the Color Match Sample option.

•	Left-click the color patch to access the Color Picker.

•	From the Color By Object dropdown list, select a skin tone for a face.

Select the sample on the picture to be matched to the color of the sample patch as follows:

•	Select the Ellipse tool.

•	On the face, search for a flat-toned area with some darker and some lighter skin, and Left-drag to include both areas in your sample.

•	If the color balance is way off, try selecting a different skin tone at the Color Picker.

•	If the balance is good but needs to be darker or lighter, Right-drag your sample to include more dark skin to lighten skin tones, or more light skin to darken skin tones.

•	Use the sliders to make small adjustments for Hue, Saturation, and/or Value.  If the skin tone is too yellow, decrease the Hue to increase skin pinkness.  If the skin tone is too pink, increase the Hue to increase skin yellowness.

•	HINT:  If your gamma settings go out of the range of 0.5 to 2.0, you have probably selected the wrong normative color.

NOTE:  This method can also be used for leaves.


Cropping

This action enables you to crop your picture.  The Top, Left, Right, and Bottom boxes show what is cropped, in pixels, from these edges.  Crop Options enable you to enter values to crop proportionally.  Cropped Picture values show the width and height in pixels of the current cropping.

To select cropping:  When you select the Crop action, initially the cropping rectangle surrounds the entire image.  You may adjust this rectangle, or Left-drag to draw another cropping rectangle.  NOTE: Left-dragging within the cropping rectangle moves the rectangle (unless the cropping rectangle surrounds the entire image); Left-dragging outside it draws a new cropping rectangle.

To change cropping dimensions:  Left-drag the sides or corners of the cropping rectangle to adjust it.  OR, Change entries in the Top, Left, Right, or Bottom text boxes to change the cropping on an edge (increase value to increase cropping; decrease value to decrease cropping).

To move cropping rectangle without changing size:  Right-drag to move the cropping rectangle without changing its size.

To display the cropped picture:  Select the Cropped option to display the current cropping.  NOTE: You can’t use Left-drag on the cropped view of the image; select the Original view on which to draw or adjust a cropping rectangle.

To enter proportional cropping values:  Check Crop Proportional.  Enter values for Crop Width and Crop Height to indicate the ratio of the cropping proportions.  NOTE:  The numbers themselves are purely arbitrary; they are used only to calculate an aspect ratio.  When you Left-drag, the cropping rectangle will have the specified proportions.


Scaling

dPhoto’s picture scaling feature allows you to enlarge a picture by increasing its number of pixels, or to shrink a picture by reducing its number of pixels.  When you are printing or viewing a picture, you might wish to scale it to be larger to smooth its display.  You might want to shrink the number of pixels in a picture in order to email it over a slow internet connection.

The scale feature offers a selection of interpolation methods which determine how a picture is scaled.  The default, Lanczos2, gives a very good compromise between sharpness and harshness.  The other methods are: Lanczos3 (goes a little farther than Lanczos2 in both sharpness and harshness), Triangle, Bell, Hermite, B-spline, and Mitchell.

At the Picture Scale dialog, you can also set the resolution for a picture.  Resolution matters for prepress software that requires in-file settings in order to derive screen ruling lines/inch.

At the top of the left section, the current dimensions, in pixels are given under Dimensions (pixels): Picture Width and Picture Height.

The New Dimensions text boxes show the Picture Width and Picture Height that you have specified, also in pixels.  Proportional scaling is checked initially.

To select an interpolation method:  Initially the Lanczos2 interpolation method is selected.  You may select another method from the dropdown list.

To enter picture width and height:  Under New Dimensions, enter values, in pixels, for Picture Width and Picture Height.  These are the new dimensions for the scaled picture.

To select proportional or non-proportional scaling:  You may uncheck Proportional to specify non-proportional scaling.  NOTE: Non-proportional scaling will distort your image.

To set the resolution for a picture:  In the Resolution section, enter a value for Horizontal dpi and Vertical dpi.  Values must be at least 1 and could be as high as 4000; realistic values would be between 72 and 300.  NOTE:  Changing only the resolution without changing the scaling does not scale the image, and therefore does not cause degradation to the image.

To apply scaling:  Left-click the Scale Picture button to execute the specified scaling.  IMPORTANT:  This step is required for scaling to occur.


Saturation Adjustment For Overall Image (Adjust)

The Saturation Adjust feature provides a way to make the colors more vivid for a faded photograph, to tone down colors in a garish photograph, or to make an image lighter or darker.

NOTE: You may also adjust saturation with a brush on the Retouch dialog, or within a selection mask using the Wand dialog.

The Saturation Adjust feature enables you to adjust either or both the Saturation (more/less vivid colors) or the Value (brighter/darker) for a photograph.

Increasing Saturation increases the saturation for the less saturated areas of the image, while affecting already saturated areas only minimally.  Increase Saturation to make colors proportionally more vivid, for example to make a faded photograph more vivid.  Decreasing Saturation decreases the saturation for the more saturated areas of the image, while affecting already unsaturated areas only minimally.  Decrease Saturation to make colors less vivid, for example to tone down a garish photo.

Increasing Value increases the value for the darker areas of the image, while affecting the lighter areas only minimally.  Increase Value to make an image brighter, for example to lighten an image that is too dark.  Decreasing Value decreases the value for lighter areas of the image, while affecting the darker areas only minimally.  Decrease Value to make an image darker, for example to darken an image that is too bright.

Color saturation, and what degree of saturation makes for a pleasing photographic image, are often deeply held personal preferences.  Different digital cameras and different film/scanner combinations will render the same scene with substantial variation in saturation.  In addition, many subjects will typically benefit from either increased or decreased saturation.  While a photograph of grafitti can use more punch, a photograph of an actor wearing a lot of stage make-up may need more subtle color rendition.

Using histograms to make adjustments:  Two histograms appear at the top left.  The top histogram shows the original settings of the selected picture; the histogram below it shows the current adjustments.  The histograms show the original luminance value distribution and the optimized luminance value distribution.  The horizontal axis of each histogram represents the luminance values from darkest (0) at the left to brightest (255) at the right; the vertical axis represents the total number of pixels with that value.  To see the count, dark percentile, and light percentile for a particular value, leave the cursor for a few seconds at the level of that value on the histogram.  See USING HISTOGRAMS.

To adjust Saturation and/or Value:  The displayed picture shows the selected settings.  The initial settings are 1.0 for Saturation and 1.0 for Value.  On the sliding bar for Saturation or Value, move the slider right to increase the setting, or left to decrease it.


Color Balancing

The Color Balance feature enables you to adjust the levels of red, yellow, green, cyan, blue, and magenta in your color pictures.  NOTE: Use the Color Balance feature for simple quick-and-dirty color corrections; gamma adjustments are more appropriate for independent corrections of individual color components for shadow or highlight details.

The original photograph is shown in the top left of the dialog.

To adjust colors:

To the right of the original photograph are three color adjustment buttons which specify the colors being adjusted.  Left-click a color adjustment button to select one of the following adjustments:

Use to adjust for too much or too little red, yellow, or green

Use to adjust for too much or too little green, cyan, or blue

Use to adjust for too much or too little red, magenta, or blue

Initially, to the right are displayed nine (identical) versions of the original picture.  Once you have Left-clicked a color adjustment button, these pictures change to reflect various possible adjustments of the specified colors (the original version is shown as the middle picture).

Initially, the gamma factors for red, green, and blue are 1.0.  When you make an adjustment, the new gamma factors for the adjusted colors appear in the Red, Green, and Blue text boxes; you can use these boxes to enter gamma factors for colors.

To make further adjustments:

Left-click one of the nine possibilities to see further adjustment possibilities in that direction (Left-clicking the middle picture has no effect).  The last adjustment you clicked always appears as the middle picture.  You may continue to Left-click one of the further possibilities to refine your adjustment.

At any time in the adjustment process, you may Left-click another color adjustment button to adjust other colors; note that further adjustments will then be based on the new color setting.

To change the degree of adjustment:  Color adjustments are initially made in steps of 5%, as indicated above the Step slider.  You may adjust this value with the slider.

To reset to the original version of the photograph:  Left-click the Reset button to reset Red, Green, and Blue values to 1.0.


Sharpening Overall Image (Adjust)

The Sharpen feature on the Adjust dialog enables you to sharpen the entire image. The smaller a photo is printed, the more important sharpening is.  Sharpening can add snap and crispness to hair, eyes, and other important image details.

NOTE: You may also sharpen with a brush on the Retouch dialog, or within a mask selection at the Wand dialog.

To select a color component for sharpening:  Left-click a color component button (see SELECTING COLOR COMPONENTS).  NOTE:  You may sharpen color components one by one for the same picture.

To adjust sharpening variables:  Optional   You may adjust Amount, Radius, and Threshold.  See COMMON DIALOG FEATURES.


Blurring Overall Image (Adjust)

Blurring can be used to soften an image, giving it a soft focus appeal.  It may also be used to reduce the prominence of image noise (sky noise, for example) or features of images that need to be softened for cosmetic reasons (skin detail, for example).  The Blur feature on the Adjust dialog enables you to blur the entire image.

NOTE: You may also blur with a brush on the Retouch dialog, or within a mask selection at the Wand dialog.

To select a color component for blurring:  Left-click a color component button (see SELECTING COLOR COMPONENTS).  NOTE:  You may blur color components one by one for the same picture.

To adjust blurring variables:  Optional   You may adjust Weight % and Radius (pixels).  See COMMON DIALOG FEATURES.


Using The Wand Dialog

The Wand feature is a sophisticated selection tool.  With it, you can have pinpoint control in selecting and correcting or modifying various aspects of your image.  The Wand tool allows you to select areas based on the relationship of the sampled pixel(s) and its adjacent pixels.  You can easily select “islands” in a selected area for a contiguous selection.

There are ten editing actions which are available at the Wand dialog.  These are explained in the sections below.  See EDITING FUNDAMENTALS for instructions and options for editing, including COMMON DIALOG FEATURES for descriptions of additional dialog features.  See SCRIPTING AND SAVING for information on saving editing changes made at the Wand dialog.

You use the Wand tools to select a “mask”, to which you can apply the following actions:

•	Paint

•	Contrast Adjustment

•	Saturation Adjustment

•	Color Shift

•	Noise Reduction

•	Color Mix

•	Burn

•	Dodge

•	Sharpen

•	Blur

Defining The Wand

To select your mask, you will use a wand tool.  You can define the type of wand you wish to use, depending on whether you are selecting your mask by clicking or by dragging to enclose an area.  Define your wand tool with one of the options below.

To select a mask by clicking:  Select one of these wand tools, which are explained more fully below.

To select a mask by drawing an area:  Select the Rectangle, Ellipse, Polyline, or Spline tool.  Left-drag to select an area on your picture; Right-drag to deselect.

Wand Tools For Click Selection

These wand tools are used when you are clicking on your picture to select the mask, either when adding to or subtracting from your mask.  Left-click its button to select a tool.  NOTE:  The Point Sample Options in the Picture Information area apply when a Wand tool is used.

To use the Wand tool:  With the Wand tool selected, Left-click on your picture to add to the mask.  Left-click to add qualifying pixels to the mask selection; Right-click to subtract pixels.  [Shift]-Left-click within a section to eliminate all islands in that section (using the [Shift] key temporarily selects the Island tool).

To use the Alternate Wand tool:  With the Alternate Wand tool selected, you can create a blocking mask by selecting areas not currently selected.  The Alternate Wand tool is good for selecting an area which includes very large islands, for example, eyes and mouth in a face.

•	Make your initial selection using the regular Wand or a shape tool.

•	Select the Alternate Wand.

•	Right-click outside the selection to create a blocking mask.

•	Left-click inside the selection to select everything in the selection (contiguous with the click point) which isn’t blocked.  This eliminates all islands of any size within the selection.

To use the Island tool:  If you think of the current selection as an ocean, unselected pixels are islands in the ocean.  With the Island tool selected, you can Left-click within a section to eliminate all islands in that section.  NOTE: Islands are defined by the specified Island size.

To use the Bucket tool:  With the Bucket tool selected, Left-click within your selection to reverse the selection state of all pixels in the mask contiguous with the Left-click point.  This eliminates large islands in your selection.

Wand Settings

The Wand settings enable you to specify which pixels the Wand tool selects as part of the mask.  Tolerance parameters, which can be either Hue-Saturation-Value values or Red-Green-Blue values, determine which pixels are selected by the Wand tool.

To specify wand feathering:   Between the wand shape tools and the command buttons is a slider which governs wand feathering.  The initial setting is 3 pixels; you may select a setting from 0 pixels to 5 pixels.  Wand feathering specifies the fade out rate of the editing effect as it is applied toward the defined edges of the mask selection.  You can adjust the number of pixels between where the effect is applied full strength, and where the effect is not applied at all (the absolute edge of the mask).

To specify RGB versus HSV:   Tolerance parameters can be based on either Red-Green-Blue or Hue-Saturation-Value values, depending on this setting.  The initial setting is RGB.  You may change this setting to HSV.

To set tolerance values:

Tolerance values appear to the right in the Wand Settings section.  Depending on the RGB or HSV setting, sliders appear for Red, Green, and Blue or Hue, Saturation, and Value.

Tolerance values give the range of values for pixels that will be included in the click-selected mask, based on the color of the pixels you click on.  For example, if you click on a pixel with a Hue of 60, and 16 is the Hue Tolerance value, then pixels with a hue ranging from 44 to 76 will be included in the mask selection.

You may enter values that you have already determined.  For example, because human skin for any given individual varies little in hue, a lot in saturation, and somewhat in value, the recommended settings to select any kind of skin color (Caucasian, African-American, Asian, and so on) are a Hue Tolerance of 12, Saturation Tolerance of 64, and Value Tolerance of 32.

To specify island size:  The Island value gives the largest dimension of islands measured in pixel area which can be automatically added to your selection by clicking.  The default Island value is 1024: islands are defined as contiguous areas containing no more than 1024 pixels.  You may change the Island value.

To use the Range patch:  For skin tones or leaves, you can select a pre-defined range for Wand Tolerance values.  Left-click the Range patch.  At the Color Picker, select a skin tone or leaf value from the Color By Object dropdown list.  The color appears as a range in the Range patch, and the HSV setting is automatically selected.

To select adjacent pixels:   If the Adjacent setting is checked (which is the default), when you click on the picture to create your mask, all adjacent pixels are evaluated according to the wand settings.  If adjacent pixels meet the tolerance values, they are included in the mask, and pixels adjacent to those pixels are tested and possibly included, and so on.  If Adjacent is not checked, all pixels in the entire image are evaluated according to the Wand setting.

Command Buttons

To the right of the wand tools are the following command buttons.

To clear the current mask selection:  Left-click the Clear Entire Selection button.

To invert the current mask selection:  Left-click the Invert Entire Selection button.  Pixels that were previously unselected are now selected as the mask.

To select the entire image:  Left-click the Select Entire Picture button to select all pixels in the image.  This enables you to apply the effect or correction to the entire picture.

To stop or start the “marching ants”:  The selection is indicated by a border of “marching ants”.  Left-click the Marching Ants Display button to stop or start this border display.

To view the current effect:  Left-click the Preview button (to the right of the Marching Ants Display button) to view the mask effect for the current action.  NOTE:  The button changes to reflect the current action; this illustration shows the paintbrush for the Paint action.  NOTE:  The Preview button and the Marching Ants button operate as a unit; at least one must be pressed, but both could be pressed.

To Use Wand Actions

1)	From the thumbnail pane, select the picture(s) to edit.

2)	Select Wand Selected... from the Edit menu.  OR  Right-click on a thumbnail and select Wand.  The Wand dialog appears.

3)	Select an editing action.

4)	Select a wand tool, and specify wand settings.

5)	For Paint only:  Select paint settings and a paint color.

For Contrast, Burn, and Dodge only:  Select sample points.

For Sharpen and Blur only:  Select a color component.

6)	Select your mask for painting, by clicking or dragging according to the wand tool you selected.

7)	Use the Commit button when you have completed a correction, before selecting another action, in order to fix your changes.

8)	Left-click one of the Save buttons to save corrections.

The next selected picture, if any, is displayed.


Paint

The Paint action enables you to paint through the selected mask.

The paint settings enable you to specify the paint color for the paint you will be applying through the mask.

To specify RGB versus HSV:  Paint settings can be based on either Red-Green-Blue or Hue-Saturation-Value values, depending on this setting.  The initial setting is RGB.

To set weight for values:  Weight values give the percentage, for each parameter, of the degree that the paint color will be applied.  For example, if you enter a weight of 60% for Hue (versus 40% for the original image), 30% for Saturation (versus 70% for the original image), and 50% for Value (versus 50% for the original image); then the Paint will be applied at 60% strength for hue, 30% for Saturation, and 50% for Value.

To select a paint color:

The current paint color is shown in the Paint Sample patch.  If you took an area sample, the color is the mean of the sampled area.

•	To take a sample, Left-click the Sampling Mode button, and take a point or area sample from your picture.

•	To select a color from the Color Picker or edit a color, Left-click the Paint Sample patch.  See USING THE COLOR PICKER.

To create and paint your mask:

•	Select a mask to define the area to be painted.

•	Specify Paint Settings.

•	Select a paint color.

Select the Paint button to paint the mask selection area with the specified paint color.


Contrast Adjustment (Wand)

The Contrast Adjust action adjusts the contrast for your mask selection.

To select contrast options

Click to change contrast and/or value most in shadows.

Click to change contrast and/or value most in mid-tones.

Click to change contrast and/or value most in highlights.

Use the sliders to adjust Contrast and/or Value (middle is 0).  To decrease, move slider left; to increase, move slider right.  NOTE: Decreasing Value makes it darker; increasing makes it lighter.


Saturation Adjustment (Wand)

Select this action to adjust saturation within your mask selection.  The Saturation Adjust action enables you to make colors more vivid or tone them down.

NOTE:  You may also adjust saturation using a brush at the Retouch dialog, or adjust saturation for the entire image at the Adjust dialog.

To adjust Saturation:  Move the slider left to decrease Saturation, making colors less vivid.  Move the slider right to increase Saturation, making colors more vivid.

To adjust Value:  Move the slider left to decrease Value, darkening the area.  Move the slider right to increase Value, lightening the area.


Color Shift (Wand)

Select this action to shift color values for your mask selection.  For example, photographs taken of moss on a rainy spring day typically show very dull greens for the moss.  The camera has correctly recorded the subdued or reduced contrast range of such days, while your perceptions have adjusted to see very saturated greens.  Scaling the saturation of the greens up by about 75% can match the saturated greens you actually saw.

 NOTE: You can also shift color for selected areas at the Retouch dialog.

Click to access color shift values.  You may adjust values or take samples from your image.

To select qualifying pixels based on color:   Optional (do before editing)

•	Left-click the color patch.  At the Color Picker, select a color range from the Hue By Name dropdown list: Red, Yellow, Green, Cyan, Blue, or Magenta.

OR

•	Select a point or area sample to determine color range for qualifying pixels.  (This is the preferred method, over selecting based on Color.)

See CORRECTING BY QUALIFYING PIXELS.


Noise Reduction (Wand)

Select this action to reduce “noise” (the variability of pixels) within the mask selection.

Click to access noise reduction values (as in illustration above).  NOTE: You must adjust one or more of these values for any noise reduction to occur.

To select qualifying pixels based on color:   Optional (do before editing)

•	Left-click the color patch.  At the Color Picker, select a color range from the Hue By Name dropdown list: Red, Yellow, Green, Cyan, Blue, or Magenta.

OR

•	Select a point or area sample to determine color range for qualifying pixels.  (This is the preferred method, over selecting based on Color.)

See CORRECTING BY QUALIFYING PIXELS.

To edit noise:  Enter a value for Hue Ratio, Saturation Ratio, and/or Value Ratio.  NOTE: You must enter a value for one of these settings in order to edit noise.  Enter a number from 0 to 100, for one or more of these options, to reduce the variability of the qualifying pixels, for that option, by the entered percentage.


Color Mix (Wand)

Select this action to specify a color mix for the mask selection.  With the Color Mix action, you can enhance or alter the color components based on the values of the other components.  You can take a percentage of one color component and use it to create part of or enhance another color component; for example, you could fortify the red component with information from the green component.

Use this feature to make creative color adjustments; create high quality grayscale, sepia-toned, or other tinted images; strengthen weak color components; and swap or duplicate color components.

NOTE:  You may also color mix using the Color Mix brush at the Retouch dialog.

Click to access color mix values (as in illustration above).  NOTE: You must adjust one or more of these values for any color mix effect to occur.

See COLOR MIXING at the Retouch dialog, for complete information on how to use this function.


Burn (Wand)

Select this action to burn within the mask selection.  Burning makes the selected part of the image darker.  NOTE: You can also burn using a brush tool at the Retouch dialog.

To adjust black, mid-tone, and white values:  Left-click the Shadows button (black dot) to burn most in the shadows, OR Left-click the Mid-tones button (gray dot) to burn most in the mid-tones, OR Left-click the Highlights button (white dot) to burn most in the highlights.

To adjust Strength   You may adjust Strength, the degree of darkening when the burn effect is applied.  The initial strength is 25%.


Dodge (Wand)

Select this action to dodge within the mask selection.  Dodging makes  the selected part of the image lighter.  NOTE: You can also dodge using a brush tool at the Retouch dialog.

To adjust black, mid-tone, and white values:  Left-click the Shadows button (black dot) to dodge most in the shadows, OR Left-click the Mid-tones button (gray dot) to dodge most in the mid-tones, OR Left-click the Highlights button (white dot) to dodge most in the highlights.

To adjust Strength   You may adjust Strength, the degree of lightening when the dodge effect is applied.  The initial strength is 25%.


Sharpen (Wand)

Select this action to sharpen within the mask selection.  The Sharpen action enables you to sharpen photos.  The smaller a photo is printed, the more important sharpening is.  Sharpening can add snap and crispness to hair, eyes, and other important image details.

NOTE:  You may sharpen the entire image at the Adjust dialog, or within a mask selection at the Wand dialog.

To select a color component for sharpening:  Left-click a color component button (see SELECTING COLOR COMPONENTS).  NOTE:  You may sharpen color components one by one for the same picture.

To adjust sharpening variables:  Optional   You may adjust Amount, Radius, and Threshold.  See COMMON DIALOG FEATURES.


Blur (Wand)

Select this action to blur within the mask selection.

NOTE:  You may blur the entire image at the Adjust dialog, or within a mask selection at the Wand dialog.

To select a color component for blurring:  Left-click a color component button (see SELECTING COLOR COMPONENTS).  NOTE:  You may blur color components one by one for the same picture.

To adjust blurring variables:  Optional   You may adjust Weight % and Radius (pixels).  See COMMON DIALOG FEATURES.


Adding Text To Your Pictures

dPhoto offers the ability to add text to your picture, with size, font, scale, and rotation capabilities.  You can add as many paragraphs as you want on a photo.

Using The Text Editing Box

To add text to a picture:

1)	On the thumbnail pane, select the picture(s) to add text to.  From the Edit menu, select Text On Selected...

OR

On the thumbnail pane, Right-click on a picture; from the menu, select Text.

The Text dialog appears.  The Enter Text cursor indicates that you may create text objects.

2)	To start a new paragraph:  Left-click on your picture; OR, to establish line wrapping immediately for the text object, Left-drag to the desired wrapping point.

Start entering text.  The selected text object is enclosed in a text editing box, as illustrated above.

The point where you Left-clicked or began to Left-drag is the initial anchor point for the text editing box.  This is the point where the text object is fixed to the picture.  The anchor point control lies at the intersection of the rulers.

The ticks on the vertical ruler mark the baseline for each line in the text object.  The ticks on the horizontal ruler mark the edge of each character on the current line.

You may press [Enter] and start a new line in the same text object.

To select a text object:  Left-click within the object (the Edit Text cursor appears).  The text object will be enclosed by its text editing box.

3)	You may edit text using the text editing box as follows (see the illustration USING THE TEXT EDITING BOX above).

To move the text object on your picture:  Left-drag from the middle of either of the rulers.

To move the anchor point for the text editing box:  From the anchor point control (where the rulers intersect), Left-drag within the box.  An “x” markes the new anchor point.  When the anchor point becomes close to a different corner, the rulers change to frame that corner.  NOTE: To reposition the anchor point, Left-drag from the anchor point control, not from the “x”.

To change leading (linespacing) for the text object:  Left-drag from the non-anchor point end of the vertical ruler.  (The entire ruler is highlighted.)  [Shift]-Left-drag to restore default leading.

To expand or compress text horizontally:  Left-drag from the non-anchor point end of the horizontal ruler.  (The entire ruler is highlighted.)  [Shift]-Left-drag to snap back to the default.

To change the wrapping point:  Left-drag from the non-ruler vertical edge.

To scale text proportionally:  Left-drag from the non-ruler horizontal edge.  (NOTE:  If differently sized text is included, text retains its relative sizes.)  The Size (pixels) slider is changed to reflect the new size, and governs subsequently drawn text objects until changed.

To rotate the text object:  To get the rotation lever, position the cursor outside the text editing box, along the crosshairs of the anchor point.  Left-drag the lever to rotate the text object.  [Shift]-Left-drag to lock to a horizontal or vertical orientation.

4)	The following text character editing functions are available.  These options apply only to selected text, if any, or to text to be entered.

To select text:  Left-drag over text to select it for editing.  Selected text is highlighted.

To access text commands:  Right-click to bring up a menu of text options.  OR  You may use key commands.  NOTE: Right-clicking on an unselected text object makes it the current text object.

Undo	[Ctrl]-Z	Undo last editing operation.

Redo	[Ctrl]-Y	Redo last editing operation.

Cut	[Ctrl]-X	Cut selected text.

Copy	[Ctrl]-C	Copy selected text.

Paste	[Ctrl]-V	Paste cut or copied text.

Delete	[Delete]	Delete selected text.

Select All	[Ctrl]-A	Select all text in the current text object.

Delete Text Object	Delete current text object

To select a font:  Select a font from the dropdown list.

To select font size in pixels:  Use the slider for Size.

To select a color for text:

•	To select from the photograph, Left-click the Text Sampling tool, then take a point sample from your picture.  The sampled color appears in the color patch (to the right of the Text Sampling tool).

•	To select from the Color Picker or edit a sample, Left-click the color patch to access the Color Picker.

To select a border color to outline text characters:

•	To select from the photograph, Left-click the Text Outline Sampling tool, then take a point sample from your picture.  The sampled color appears in the color patch (to the right of the Text Outline Sampling tool).

•	To select from the Color Picker or edit a sample, Left-click the color patch to access the Color Picker.

To select the outline width in pixels:  Use the Outline slider.

To select Bold or Italic:  Left-click one or both attribute buttons.

5)	The following options can be selected for the current text object.

To specify appearance of very small text:  Select from Normal, Smooth, Crisp, and Strong to control the edges of very small text.

To specify text justification:  Left-click a button to select Left Justified, Centered, or Right-justified.

To see accurate preview of current text object as it will be printed:  Left-click the Preview button to the right.  NOTE: When text objects are not selected for editing, they are displayed as they will appear when printed.

6)	When entering text, you may either apply it as a script item; or make it a permanent part of your image, using the Commit button and a Save button.

To save text as a script item:  Do not use the Commit button!  Use a Save button if desired.  When you exit the dialog, your text is automatically applied as a script item, whether you used a Save button or not.  To keep the script item as part of the picture, use a Save Scripts function from the Scripts menu after exiting the dialog.

OR

To integrate text onto your image:

•	When you have finished one or more text entries, Left-click the Commit Text button, fixing text to your image.  Once you have committed text, you cannot adjust or undo it.

•	Use the Save To Original button to make text part of your image permanently.  OR  Use the Save As Copy to

IMPORTANT: If you exit the dialog after committing text, and you do not save, your text is completely gone (not saved as a script item).


Adding Copyright And Trademark Symbols

You can add the copyright, trademark, and registered trademark symbols, and ellipsis (...) within your text, as follows:

To add copyright symbol:  Press [Ctrl]-[Alt]-C.

To add trademark symbol:  Press [Ctrl]-[Alt]-T.

To add registered trademark symbol:  Press [Ctrl]-[Alt]-R.

To add ellipsis (...):  Press [Ctrl]-[Alt]-[period].


Rotating Pictures To A Specified Angle

You may rotate a picture to a specified angle, for example to correct an out of level horizon line.

To Rotate A Picture

1)	From the thumbnail pane, select the picture(s) to rotate to a specified angle.

2)	Select Rotate Selected Arbitrarily... from the Rotate or Edit menu.  The Rotate dialog appears.

3)	Left-drag on your picture to draw a line across pixels you wish to be either horizontal or vertical.  The angle of the line is given in Rotation Angle, described in counterclockwise degrees.

You can edit the angle, or enter another angle, in Rotation Angle.

4)	Left-click the Rotation button to execute the corrected rotation.

The picture will be rotated so that this line is absolutely horizontal or vertical (whichever orientation is nearest that of the line).

The picture area is expanded to save all image pixels.  All extended pixels not covered by image pixels are set to the background color.  NOTE:  You may select background color using Set Background Color from the Options menu.

5)	Left-click one of the Save buttons to save the rotation.

6)	When done, exit the dialog.


Correcting Perspective

You can use this feature to correct the perspective of a picture shot from an odd angle.  For example, you may wish to correct perspective for a building shot from a low angle.

This feature offers a selection of interpolation methods which determine how a picture is corrected.  The default, Lanczos2, gives a very good compromise between sharpness and harshness.  The other methods are: Lanczos3 (goes a little farther than Lanczos2 in both sharpness and harshness), Triangle, Bell, Hermite, B-spline, and Mitchell.

To Correct Perspective

1)	From the thumbnail pane, select the picture(s) to correct.

2)	Select Perspective Correct Selected... from the Edit menu.  The dialog appears.

3)	Initially the Lanczos2 interpolation method is selected.  You may select another method from the dropdown list.

4)	Select Crop Picture (the initial setting) or Expand Picture.

When Crop Picture is selected, the picture is expanded so that the adjustment points become the new corner points of the corrected picture.  Some pixels outside of the adjustment lines are cropped.

When Expand Picture is selected, the picture area is expanded to save all image pixels.  All extended pixels not covered by image pixels are set to the background color.  NOTE:  You may select background color using Set Background Color from the Options menu.

5)	Your picture has an adjustment point at each of its corners.  Left-drag one or more adjustment points on your picture to draw lines that are parallel to the lines in the picture that you wish to render vertical.  (NOTE:  If you are adjusting horizontal lines, rotate the picture first so that lines are vertical.)

6)	Left-click the Perspective Correct button to execute the correction.

7)	Left-click one of the Save buttons to save the rotation.

8)	When done, exit the dialog.


Color Correction

The color correction feature offers a comprehensive array of ways to enhance colors, correct color problems, and adjust contrast for your photographs.

Selecting Samples Of Values To Enhance Or Correct

When making color corrections, you can:

•	Select a color range to enhance, by drawing an area sample on your photo (use an Area Sample tool);

•	Select one or more point samples for governing adjustments, by clicking on your photo (use the Point Sample tool);

•	Correct color casts and/or adjust contrast by selecting a point which will be white or black on the output photo (use the White Point and/or Black Point tool).

See TAKING SAMPLES.

Using The Mapping Graph

The mapping graph shows the control points that you have defined using point or area samples.  The horizontal and vertical grayscale gradients at the bottom and to the left show the range of pixel values from 0 to 255 for pixels comprising the photograph.

When you click on your photograph with the Point Sample tool (the eyedropper), a control point, indicated by two intersecting cyan lines, is added to the mapping graph.  The vertical line indicates the input value of the point, and the horizontal line indicates the output value.  Initially, these values are identical.  Each control point has two adjustment handles for its values: the small rectangles lying on the lefthand and bottom grayscale gradients.  Normally you would adjust the output value for the control point, using the adjustment handle on the lefthand vertical grayscale gradient.  When you adjust a control point it becomes red, indicating that it is selected.

When you draw an area sample on your picture, two control points are added to the mapping graph.  The upper control point gives the upper boundary for the pixels values within the area; the lower control point gives the lower boundary for pixel values.  Either of these control points can be adjusted.

Using The Histogram

The histogram lies just under the mapping graph.  It shows the color intensity values for the selected color component for the entire picture.  The Black (lefthand) and White (righthand) vertical adjusters can be moved using their adjustment handles, to adjust the contrast range of the picture.

Adjusting Luminance

You may use the Luminance feature to manipulate the overall luminance of objects.  For large changes in luminance, color balance can be affected.  When Luminance is selected, colors are adjusted using luminance color weighting:

Luminance = (Red * 0.3) + (Green * 0.59) + (Blue * 0.11)

NOTE:  This would be a useful correction primarily for adjusting luminance values before an image is converted to grayscale.  The problem with grayscale conversion is that contrast not based on luminance is lost during conversion.  Two colors that look very different in color can have the same gray value assigned during conversion.

Defining Black And White On Picture

You may color correct your picture by redefining black and white using a point sample.

You may select a point on your photograph to be defined as “black”; that pixel and all darker pixels will be rendered as absolute black.  Your picture must have something on it that should be represented as truly black, such as very deep neutral shadow.  Likewise, you may select a point on your photograph to be defined as “white”; that pixel and all brighter pixels will be rendered as absolute white.  Again, your picture must have something on it that should be  represented as truly white, such as a bright white shirt or a bright neutral cloud (i.e. not dawn or sunset).

Redefining black and/or white on your picture affects Red, Green, and Blue unequally for each color.  When redefining black, the pixel value of your sample will be rendered as a pixel value of zero, as will all lower pixel values.  When redefining white, the pixel value of your sample will be rendered as a pixel value of 255, as will all higher pixel values.

Note that both of these tools tend to “flatten” detail or texture in image areas with values below (for Black point) or above (for White point) the point samples.

•	Before taking the sample, you may select a point sample option which applies when taking the sample.

•	To take a point sample for correcting black values, select the Black Point tool then Left-click on the picture.

•	To take a point sample for correcting white values, select the White Point tool then Left-click on the picture.

NOTE:  This adjustment can be seen on individual histograms for Red, Green, and Blue.

Displaying Original Or Corrected Picture

To display the original uncorrected picture, [Alt]-Left-click on the picture.  To return to the display of the corrected picture, [Alt]-Right-click on the picture.

Summary Of The Color Correction Process

•	Select Black and White points if necessary, to set the overall image contrast.

•	Select an area sample, and/or one or more point samples, that define control points used in color correction.  You can use an Area Sample tool to draw an area sample; or the Point Sample tool to select point samples.  These samples tell dPhoto “I want to adjust brightness or color for pixels like these.”

•	Select a color component to correct.  You should first correct any color cast, using Red, Green, and/or Blue color components; then correct either Red/Green/Blue or Luminance.

•	Make color adjustments on the mapping graph and/or histogram.

•	Save your editing changes.

To Make Color Corrections

1)	From the thumbnail pane, select the picture(s) to color correct.

2)	Select Color Correct Selected... from the Edit menu.  The dialog appears.

3)	For each color correction you make, you should consider which color component to correct.

To select a color component to correct:  When the RGB (Red, Green, Blue) component is selected, all three colors are adjusted equally.  If you wish to adjust colors separately, Left-click one of the color component buttons.  You may also select Luminance to adjust colors using luminance color weighting, allowing you to manipulate the overall luminance of objects.

The histogram for the selected color is shown.

4)	Set your Black and White points if necessary, to set the overall image contrast.

To select black value sample:  Select the Black Point tool for setting the black value.  You may select a point sample on your photograph to be defined as “black”; that pixel and all darker pixels will be dead black.  Note that your picture must have something on it that is truly black, such as a very deep neutral shadow.  Left-click the Black Point tool, then Left-click on the picture.  NOTE:  This adjustment can be seen on individual histograms for Red, Green, and Blue.

To select white value sample:  Select the White Point tool for setting the white value.  You may select a point sample on your photograph to be defined as “white”; that pixel and all whiter pixels will be dead white.  Note that your picture must have something on it that is truly white, such as a bright white shirt.  Left-click the White tool, then Left-click on the picture.  NOTE:  This adjustment can be seen on individual histograms for Red, Green, and Blue.

5)	You may do one or several of the following operations to select samples for values to adjust.

To select an area sample to enhance:  Select the Rectangle, Ellipse, or Polyline tool, then Left-drag (Left-click for the Polyline tool) an area on your picture.

To select a point sample for governing adjustments:  This adds a control point to the mapping graph based on the selected point sample, whose value can be adjusted on the graph.  Select the Point Sample tool, then Left-click on your picture.

6)	You may adjust control points on the mapping graph and/or on the histogram to correct color.  Left-drag adjustment handles (the rectangles lying on the grayscale gradients) to adjust colors.

7)	Left-click one of the Save buttons to save corrections.

8)	When done, exit the dialog.


Configuration Options

The following options governing the configuration of dPhoto are available from the File menu.

Save Configuration File and Open Configuration File

Use Save Configuration File (on the File menu) to save your current dPhoto configuration to a file.  The positions and sizes of the panes within the main dPhoto window are saved upon exit.  In addition, the wildcard specifications for files displayed in the File/Blowup pane (indicated at the far left of the status bar) are kept.

Use Open Configuration (on the File menu) to open a configuration file that you have saved, to govern settings for the current dPhoto session.  To retain these settings for subsequent dPhoto sessions, check Save Configuration on Exit.

Save Configuration On Exit

Save Configuration On Exit (on the File menu) applies to the settings of the current dPhoto session..  When off (as it is initially), the following applies.  Any changes you make to the main dPhoto window are not saved upon exit.  Changes you make in the size and/or position of all other dialog windows are kept upon exit, for subsequent dPhoto sessions.

When Save Configuration On Exit is checked, the positions and sizes of the panes within the main dPhoto window are saved upon exit.  In addition, the wildcard specifications for files displayed in the File/Blowup pane (indicated at the far left of the status bar) are kept.  When you reenter dPhoto, your last saved configuration will be used to reestablish the saved pane layout and wildcard specifications of your main dPhoto window.


dPhoto Options

Convert Grayscale Image To RGB   This option allows you to colorize black and white photographs, by converting grayscale photographs to Red/Green/Blue images.  Select pictures on the thumbnail pane.  Select this option from the Options menu.  You are prompted for new names for the RGB images you are creating.

Create Empty Image File   This option enables you to create an empty image file, which you can then fill.  Select this option from the Options menu.  You are prompted for the width and height, in pixels, of the new, empty image file.


Defining Patterns And Formulas In dPhoto

You can define patterns and formulas for use in renaming pictures.  Formulas can also be defined for File Data Content, an option at the Print dialog.

In renaming, you may devise a pattern to specify the part of the picture file name to be changed.  The pattern defines the “Change Part Of File Name” entry.  The Formula feature helps to ensure that file names will be unique.  File dates can be included in file names, to record when pictures were taken and to enable files to be sorted by date.

Valid ‘Change This Part To’ Entries For Formulas

In constructing formulas for renaming and for file data content, you may use intrinsic functions built into dPhoto.  These functions are similar to those found in Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications 6 (they are a subset of VBA 6).  See VBA INTRINSIC FUNCTIONS for a complete list of intrinsic functions.

The ‘Change This Part To’ entry in formulas defines what will replace the file name part to be changed.  For this entry, enter a VBA type expression using built-in functions and variables (see VBA INTRINSIC FUNCTIONS for a complete list.)  The most useful will be the following:

•	&   Use the ampersand character to join items.

•	“abc”   Enclose a string (represented by abc in this example) in double quotes

In addition to the VBA functions, dPhoto can use the following functions as variables in its formulas:

•	FileName   This is the name given to the file by the camera.  It is defined as all characters shown in Current Name, not including the period or dot and three-letter file extension.

•	ChangeTo   This is the entry in the “Change This Part To” text box.

•	FileDate   This is the date of the picture file.  The format should be indicated as in the following example: Format(FileDate,“yyyymmdd”), which would yield a result such as 20010227 for February 27, 2001.  Note that this format has the advantage of sorting correctly by date.

•	FileHPix   This is the width of the file in pixels (horizontal pixels).

•	FileVPix   This is the height of the file in pixels (vertical pixels).

•	FilePath   This is the path for the file name, not including filename.ext.   For example, FilePath for C:\ CRC\ PROJECTS\ HONDAENGINE-01.JPG would be C:\ CRC\ PROJECTS\.

•	FileExt   This is the three-letter extension for the file name (not including the period).

•	FileSerial   Normally, you would use a pattern to strip off everything but the number from the original file name assigned by the camera.  FileSerial is defined as this number.  When a series of files is renamed, dPhoto determines the lowest file serial number, and begins the numbering with that number, which appears in the “Number From” box.  If Renumber is checked, then numbering will begin with 1 and be ordered according to the ordinal position of files in the name section.

NOTE: If no formula is selected, the default formula is:

ChangeTo & FileSerial.

To Define Patterns For Renaming

1)	Select Define Rename Pattern... from the Rename menu.  The dialog appears.  You may enter up to 16 patterns.

2)	For each pattern you are defining, enter the Pattern Name.  The pattern name should describe the pattern adequately; it will appear on the list of patterns from which you will select.

3)	For each pattern you are defining, enter the ‘Change Part Of File Name’ Pattern.  This is the pattern which defines the part of the file name that is to be replaced.  Define the pattern using the wildcards *, ?, #, [ and ] as follows.

*	Use to indicate zero or more characters

?	Use to indicate any single character

#	Use to indicate any decimal digit

[ ]	Use to enclose a set of possible characters, one of which must be matched; e.g. [asdfg] indicates that the next character must be either an a, s, d, f, or g.  You may indicate a range of characters using a dash, e.g. [A-Z0-9] will match any alphanumeric character.  Use [#] to indicate a literal hash mark, and [?] to indicate a literal question mark (rather than using these characters as wildcards).  To indicate a right square bracket (]) as a possible character in an enclosed set, it must be the first character listed, e.g. []ghij].  To indicate dash (-) as a possible character in an enclosed set, it must be the last character listed, e.g. [abcd-].

4)	Click Done to save your patterns.

To Define Formulas For Renaming

1)	Select Define Rename Formula... from the Rename menu.  The dialog appears.  You may enter up to 16 formulas.

2)	For each formula you are defining, enter the Formula Name.  The formula name should describe the formula adequately; it will appear on the list of formulas from which you will select.

3)	For each formula you are defining, enter the ‘Change This Part To’ Formula.  This entry defines what will replace the file name part to be changed.  Enter a VBA type expression using built-in functions and variables (see above; see VBA INTRINSIC FUNCTIONS for a complete list).

4)	Click Done to save the formulas and exit the dialog.

Example: Naming With Subject, Date Picture Was Taken, and Serial Number

Define a formula as follows:

ChangeTo & “–” & Format(FileDate,“yyyymmdd”) & “–” & FileSerial

At the Rename dialog, select this formula at the Use Formula text box.

The Change This Part To entry is Smith&JonesWedding.  The original file names given by the camera are PXXX05.JPG, PXXX06.JPG, PXXX07.JPG, etc.  The date the pictures were taken was April 21, 2001.  The Number From prompt initially showed 5, but you have changed it to 10.

Files would be renamed as follows:

SMITH&JONESWEDDING–20010421–10.JPG

SMITH&JONESWEDDING–20010421–11.JPG

SMITH&JONESWEDDING–20010421–12.JPG, etc.

To Define Formulas For File Data Content

1)	Select Define File Data Formulas from the Options menu at the Print dialog.  The dialog appears.

2)	For each formula you are defining, enter the Formula Name.  The formula name should describe the formula adequately; it will appear on the list of formulas from which you will select.

3)	For each formula you are defining, enter the ‘Change This Part To’ Formula.  This entry defines what will replace the file name part to be changed.  Enter a VBA type expression using built-in functions and variables (see above; see VBA INTRINSIC FUNCTIONS for a complete list).

4)	Click Done to save the formulas and exit the dialog.


Printing In dPhoto

This section gives a summary of the printing process in dPhoto.  There are comprehensive print options available.  See USING THE PRINT DIALOG, and OPTIONS FROM THE PRINT MENU for descriptions of all print options.  To define custom templates for printed pages, see USING TEMPLATES FOR PICTURE ARRANGEMENT.  To create and print albums, see SAVING AND PRINTING AN ALBUM OF PICTURES.

To Print Pictures In dPhoto

1)	To select pictures to print:  On the thumbnail pane, select the pictures you wish to print.  Pictures will be arranged according to the order of selection.

OR

To print all pictures on the thumbnail pane:  Make sure that no pictures are selected,  OR  use Select All from the Edit menu to select all pictures.  Pictures will be previewed, and printed, in the order that they appear on the thumbnail pane.  NOTE: You may wish to first arrange pictures in the proper order for printing by Left-dragging them on the thumbnail pane.

IMPORTANT:  When the Print dialog is open, no pictures on its filmstrip can be removed from the thumbnail pane.  Once on the filmstrip, pictures stay there until the dialog is closed.

2)	Left-click the Print Selected Pictures button, OR select Preview/Print from the File menu.  The Print Preview dialog appears.  The first page to be printed, showing the current layout options, is previewed on the right.

To append pictures to the Print dialog filmstrip:  On the thumbnail pane, select pictures to append.  Left-click the Print Selected Pictures button, OR select Preview/Print from the File menu.

To add pictures to the filmstrip, from another folder:

•	Select the folder in the folder pane.

•	Optional:  In the file/blowup pane, you may select pictures to add.

•	Left-click the Pick/Append Selected Files button.  IMPORTANT: You must append pictures rather than simply add them, since any thumbnails already on the filmstrip cannot be removed from the thumbnail pane.

•	Select thumbnails to be added to the filmstrip.

•	Left-click the Print Selected Pictures button, OR select Preview/Print from the File menu.

•	The pictures will be added to the filmstrip, however they will not be placed on pages.  Left-drag them from the filmstrip into blank picture slots to add them to pages.

3)	Select the desired print options, from the options button on the left or from the Print Preview Options menu.  You may also select pages to be printed.  (See sections below for descriptions of printing options.)

4)	To print the currently displayed page only:  Left-click the Print This Page button to print only the current page (which is displayed).

To print all (selected) pages:  Left-click the Print All Pages button to print all currently selected pages; or to print all pages if no pages are selected.

5)	Exit the dialog when done.


Using The Print Dialog

The following options are available as setting on the Print Preview dialog.  Additional options are covered in OPTIONS FROM THE PRINT MENU.

NOTE: Where options are set by Left-clicking one of a set of buttons, you may specify no setting by toggling off any selected button.

Filmstrip

The filmstrip shows selected pictures.  The filmstrip runs at the bottom of the preview pane in landscape orientation and to the right of the preview pane in portrait orientation.  You may drag pictures from the filmstrip into blank slots (after inserting a page).

Adding, Reordering, And Removing Pictures On A Page

To add pictures to the filmstrip:  At the thumbnail pane select one or more pictures.  Left-click the Print Selected Pictures button at the dPhoto main window, OR select Preview/Print from the File menu.  The selected pictures will be added to the filmstrip, from which they can be added to a page.

To add a picture to the current page:  Left-drag the picture from the filmstrip into a blank slot in an inserted page.

To remove a picture from the current page:  Left-drag the picture onto the filmstrip.

To add thumbnails into blank slots:  From the thumbnail pane, select one or more thumbnails (in the desired order) and Left-drag them into blank slots on a page.  NOTE: Pictures already in slots cannot be added again.

To reorder pictures on the current page:  Left-drag pictures on the displayed page to reorder them.  They will be rearranged according to the layout order.

To add pictures to the filmstrip:  At the thumbnail pane select one or more pictures.  Left-drag them onto the filmstrip, OR Left-click the Print Selected Pictures button at the dPhoto main window.  From the filmstrip they can be added to a page.

NOTE:  Once pictures are arranged, they can be saved as an album; see SAVING AND PRINTING AN ALBUM OF PICTURES.

Rotating Pictures Individually

Left-click on a picture on the displayed page to rotate it 90° counterclockwise.  Right-click on a picture to rotate it 90° clockwise.

Apply To Mode

The Apply Mode buttons enable you to specify whether options are applied to all pages to be printed, or only to the current (displayed) page.  The Apply Mode governs the options in the light gray upper left section of the dialog: Edit, Page Templates, Orient, Optimize, and Layout Order.

IMPORTANT:  Use Apply To All Pages mode (which is initially selected) at the beginning of the preview/print session, to set generally desired guidelines for all pages.  Then you may use the Apply To Current Page Only mode to customize settings for individual pages.  Note that if you then switch to Apply To All Pages and change the settings, your customized settings will be overridden (you will get a confirm prompt when you switch back to Apply To All mode).

Left-click Apply To All Pages (the initially selected mode) when setting general guidelines for all pages you are printing.  Use at the beginning of your printing session.

Left-click Apply To Current Page Only to customize settings for individual pages.  Remember that then switching to Apply To All Pages could overwrite customized settings for individual pages.

Editing Mode

Under the heading Edit there are two editing modes:

Use Arrange Pictures On Page (the default setting) to arrange pictures on pages for printing.  The arrangement for a page can be saved as a custom template; see USING CUSTOM TEMPLATES FOR PICTURE ARRANGEMENT below.  You can also save arranged pages as an album; see SAVING AND PRINTING AN ALBUM OF PICTURES below.

Left-click Edit The Picture Template to edit the template to contain pictures.  This brings up a blank page with the current page template settings, which you can edit.  You can save this arrangement for a page as a custom template; see USING CUSTOM TEMPLATES FOR PICTURE ARRANGEMENT below.

Page Templates

You may specify the number of pictures per page, and the layout of those pictures on the page.  First, make sure the desired Apply To mode is selected.  Then, select the Number of Pictures Per Page and the Page Layout options.  Finally, Left-click Apply to apply these settings.

Pictures are printed as large as possible on the page for the selected options, unless optimized rotation is overridden (see OPTIMIZE PRINTING SIZE below).

NOTE:  For inserted blank pages, the displayed page template options apply, whether or not you have Left-clicked Apply.  In this way, you can specify page template options for inserted pages without affecting these settings for your other pictures.

Number Of Pictures Per Page   From the dropdown list, select the number of pictures per page.

Page Layout   From the dropdown list, select the layout of the pictures.

Orientation

You may change the default orientation, which has been pre-selected according to the number of pictures per page.  First, make sure the desired Apply To mode is selected.  Then,

Left-click Portrait to change the orientation to portrait mode.

Left-click Landscape to change the orientation to landscape mode.

Optimize Size By Rotating Pictures

These options enable you to specify whether pictures should be rotated to optimize printing size on the page.  NOTE: “Optimize” in this context means that the picture is rotated (if necessary) such that its printed size is as large as possible in the given print area.

First, make sure the desired Apply To mode is selected.  Then, Left-click one of the following buttons to specify rotation direction.

Left-click to rotate pictures 90° counterclockwise (this option is initially selected).

Left-click to rotate pictures 90° clockwise.

To specify that pictures not be rotated to optimize size:  Deselect any selected Optimize button.

To rotate pictures individually:  Left-click on a picture to rotate it 90° counterclockwise.  Right-click on a picture to rotate it 90° clockwise.  (The Optimize button is automatically deselected.)  NOTE: Unlike the Optimize option, the Apply To All Pages mode does not affect this rotation, as this rotation applies to single pictures only.

Picture Layout Order

Column/Row Layout   Specify the ordering of pictures on the page, for the specified number of pictures per page.  Pictures are arranged according to the order they were selected.  If no pictures or all pictures were selected, pictures are ordered as they appear on the thumbnail pane.  These options enable you to specify the ordering you want on the printed page, taking into account optimizing.  HINT: Refer to the display to the right to check the specified layout.

First, make sure the desired Apply To mode is selected.  Then, Left-click one of the following buttons to govern the order of the pictures on the page.

Across Then Down

Down Then Across

Up Then Across (Across Then Down When Rotated 90° Counterclockwise)

Across Then Up (Down Then Across When Rotated 90° Counterclockwise)

Down Then Across (Across Then Down When Rotated 90° Clockwise)

Across Then Down (Down Then Across When Rotated 90° Clockwise)

Inserting Pages

To create blank slots into which to add pictures, insert one or more pages.

Left-click to insert a blank page before the current page.

Left-click to insert a blank page after the current page.

NOTE:  For inserted blank pages, the displayed page template options apply, whether or not you have Left-clicked Apply.

Copying, Cutting, And Pasting

Left-click to copy the currently displayed page to the clipboard.

Left-click to cut the currently displayed page to the clipboard.

Left-click to paste clipboard contents before the current page.

Left-click to paste clipboard contents after the current page.

Page Option Positions

NOTE:  These options apply to all pages, and cannot be customized for individual pages.

Binding Margin   Specify that a binding margin be added, if desired, at the left, right, top, or bottom.  The margin is indicated on the display by three (non-printing) holes.  The default is no binding margin.  The binding margin option can be specified from the dropdown list.

NOTE: To adjust the width of the binding margin, select Margin from the Print menu, and edit the value of Binding Margin.  To specify that binding margins are done notebook style for odd and even pages, select Odd/Even Binding from the Options menu.  See OPTIONS FROM THE PRINT MENU and OPTIONS FROM THE PRINT OPTIONS MENU below.

Header/Footer Position   You may include headers and/or footers with printed pictures.  This option specifies where the headers and footers appear: headers to the left and footers to the right of pictures, or headers above and footers below pictures.  Headers and footers printed to the left and right of pictures will read correctly if the page is rotated 90° clockwise.  The default is no position, which means that no headers and footers are printed.  Header/footer position can be specified from the dropdown list.

NOTE: Set the content of headers and footers at the Options menu.  To specify that headers and footers are done notebook style for odd and even pages, select Odd/Even Header/Footer from the Options menu.  See OPTIONS FROM THE PRINT OPTIONS below.

File Data

You may include with each printed picture file data such as file name, file type, file date, and file description.

File Data Position   This option specifies where the text appears: to the left, to the right, above, or below the picture.  File data text printed to the left or right of pictures will read correctly if the page is rotated 90° clockwise.  The default is Below, which means that text is printed below the picture.  File data information can be specified from the dropdown list.

File Data Content   From the dropdown menu below File Data Position, you can select a formula which defines file data content.  The pre-defined formulas included with dPhoto are:

•	FileName	 	Gives the name of the picture file

•	FileName (FileDate)	Gives the name and date of the picture file

•	FileDescription	Gives the description of the picture file

NOTE: You can define additional formulas by selecting File Data Content from the Options menu.  See USING PATTERNS AND FORMULAS IN DPHOTO.

Page Selector

The Page Selector shows the page number of the currently displayed page, and its selection status.  The top number is the current page; the bottom number is the total page count.  Selected pages are highlighted in the highlight color set for your system.

To select pages for printing:  [Ctrl]-Left-click the Page Selector text box to select or deselect the current page.  You may use the [Shift] key to select a range of pages.

To display pages:  Left-click the arrows on either side of the text box to display pages: left arrow shows the previous page, right arrow shows the next page.

Action Buttons

Left-click Print This Page to print only the current page (which is displayed).

Left-click Print All Pages to print all currently selected pages; or, to print all pages if no pages are selected.

After printing, Left-click Done to exit the Print Preview dialog.

NOTE: These options also appear on the Print menu.


Options From The Print Menu

From the Print menu the following options are available.

Print Menu

Open Album File...	Open an album of pictures

Save Album File...	Save current picture and page setup as an album

Save Page As Custom Template	Save current print page setup as a template

Rename Custom Template...	Rename picture arrangement template(s)

Delete Custom Template...	Delete picture arrangement template(s)

Print This Page	Print the currently displayed page

Print All Pages	Print all pages of selected pictures

Print Setup...	Specify printer options

Margins...	Adjust width of binding margin

Done Printing	Exit the Print Preview dialog

Saving And Opening Albums   You may save and open albums of pictures to print.  See SAVING AND PRINTING AN ALBUM OF PICTURES below.

Using Templates   You may select custom template options.  See USING TEMPLATES FOR PICTURE ARRANGEMENT below.

Print This Page   Select this option to print only the current page (which is displayed).

Print All Pages   Select this option to print all currently selected pages; or to print all pages if no pages are selected.

Print Setup   Select this option to specify printer options.

Margins   Select this option to specify the following margin options.  NOTE: Other options governing margins can be found at the Print Options menu.

•	Page Feed Offset   Specify the length, in inches, to move the start of the printable area relative to the physical edge of the paper.  The initial setting is 0.125.

•	Offset From Narrow Edge / Offset From Wide Edge   Specify whether the offset begins at the narrow or wide edge of the paper, according to your printer.  The initial setting is Offset From Narrow Edge.

•	Additional Margin   Specify an additional margin to add to your default printer, to widen the margin around all edges of your page.  The initial setting is 0.125.

•	Binding Margin   Specify the total width of the binding margin.  The value of Binding Margin includes the width of the unprintable area of the edge, the Additional Margin, and the Page Feed Offset.  The initial setting is 0.75.

•	Picture Margin   Specify the minimum margin between pictures.  The initial setting is 0.125.

Done Printing   Select this option to exit the Print Preview dialog.


Options From The Print Options Menu

The following options are available at the Options menu at the Print Preview dialog.

Options Menu (from Print Preview dialog)

Header/Footer...	Specify text for headers and/or footers

Define File Data Formulas...	Define or edit formulas for file data content

Repeat Count (1)...	Specify printing of multiple copies of selected pictures

Gamma Series...	For each picture, display/print a series with different gamma settings

Odd/Even Binding	Specify binding margins done notebook style for odd and even pages

Odd/Even Header/Footer	Specify headers and footers done notebook style for odd and even pages

Header/Footer Content   Select this option to specify text for headers and/or footers.  The Header/Footer dialog appears.  You can specify Left, Center, and Right entries for both header and footer.  Initially, all entries are None (no entry is printed).

For each entry, you may type in text you wish to appear.  OR, You may select one of the following from a dropdown list:

•	None   No entry is printed.

•	Print Date   Prints date of printing.

•	Print Date/Time   Prints date and time of printing.

•	Picture Date Range   Prints date pictures were taken; shows a range if pictures were taken on more than one day.

•	Picture Date/Time Range   Prints date and time pictures were taken; shows a range if pictures were taken on more than one day.

•	Page   Shows page number, for example Page 3.

•	Page of Pages   Shows page of total number of pages, for example Page 3 of 25.

File Data Formula   This option enables you to define or edit one or more formulas which specify file data content.  One of these defined formulas can be selected at the Print Preview dialog (from the dropdown menu below File Data Position).  The pre-defined formulas included with dPhoto are:

•	FileName	 	Gives the name of the picture file

•	FileName (FileDate)	Gives the name and date of the picture file

•	FileDescription	Gives the description of the picture file

Select this option to define additional formulas.  See USING PATTERNS AND FORMULAS IN DPHOTO for information on how to define formulas.

Repeat Count   Select this option to specify the printing of multiple copies of selected pictures (the (n) shows the current setting of repeat count).  At the dialog, enter a number to specify how many copies of each selected picture will be printed.  The default is 1 copy of each picture.

Gamma Series   Select this option to preview, for a selected picture, a series showing a range of different gamma settings for printed output.  At the dialog, enter the Gamma Series Count (4 pictures/page is the initial setting) to specify the number of pictures in the range.  You may change the Series Minimum Gamma (0.5 is initial setting) and/or the Series Maximum Gamma (2 is initial setting).

You may print the preview to determine the best printed version.  If you want to permanently change the gamma setting based on the best printed version, you may do so at the Gamma Adjust dialog (from the Edit menu).  { How do you do this?}

Odd/Even Binding   Select this option to specify that binding margins are done notebook style for odd and even pages.  With this setting on, at the Print menu set the binding margin for page one (and all odd pages); the setting is reversed for page two and all even pages.  For example, if odd pages have a margin at the top, even pages have a margin at the bottom.

Odd/Even Header/Footer   Select this option to specify that headers and footers vary for odd and even pages, for example, page numbers appear on the right for odd pages and on the left for even pages.


Using Templates For Picture Arrangement

You can edit the default page template to create custom templates for arranging pictures on pages for printing.

To Create Or Edit A Custom Template

•	Left-click Edit Picture Template.  This brings up a blank page with the current page template settings, which you can edit.

•	To change the page template settings that are the beginning point of your template, select the number of pictures per page and the page layout. OR  To edit a previously created custom template, select it (as described below).  Left-click Apply when done.

•	To change the size of a picture slot, Left-drag from an edge or corner.

•	To move a picture slot, Right-drag it.

•	To create a new picture slot, Left-drag from a blank area on the template.

•	To delete a picture slot, Left-click on it to select it, then press [Delete] or [Backspace].

•	To save the custom template, select Save Page As Custom Template from the Print menu.  NOTE: Custom templates are automatically named based on date and time; and are stored in a file called DPHOTO.DPT, which is in the same file as the dPhoto executable file.

•	After saving a custom template, you may continue to create templates. Repeat this process, beginning with the second step.

To Use A Custom Template

•	At the Print dialog, select Custom from the Number Of Pictures Per Page dropdown list.

•	Select the specific custom template from the Page Layout dropdown list just below it.

•	Left-click Apply.  The selected custom template is applied.

•	Make sure that Edit Picture Layout is selected, to arrange pictures on pages.

To Use A Custom Template File   At the Print dialog, select Custom Template from the Page Template dropdown list; then select the specific template from the dropdown list just below.  The selected custom template is applied.

To Rename A Custom Template   Select Rename Custom Template from the Print menu, and rename your custom templates as desired.

To Delete A Custom Template

•	Select Delete Custom Template from the Print menu.  A dialog appears showing all custom templates.

•	Select one or more custom templates to delete.

•	Left-click the Delete button.

•	Required: Left-click the Commit button (the check mark) to commit deletions.

•	Left-click OK and exit the dialog.


Saving And Printing An Album Of Pictures

To save an album of pictures:

1)	On the thumbnail pane, select the pictures you wish to put in the album.

2)	Go to the Print Preview dialog.

3)	Arrange and rotate pictures for each page of the album.

4)	From the Print menu, select Save Album.

5)	At the Save Album dialog, enter a name for your album.

To load and print an album of pictures:

1)	With no pictures loaded onto the thumbnail pane, Left-click Print on the toolbar.

OR

Go to the Print Preview dialog; from the Print menu select Open Album.

The Open Album dialog appears.

2)	Select an album to open.

The Print Preview dialog appears, with the first page of the album displayed and ready to be printed.  NOTE: Album pictures are automatically appended onto the thumbnail pane.

3)	Left-click the Print All Pages button to print all pages in the album.

OR

You may select certain pages to print.

OR

You may edit the album, then save it.


Overview Of Slide Shows

dPhoto provides the capability to create and display a "slide show" onscreen of your digital photos.  On the thumbnail pane, you can place pictures, from various folders, to use in the slide show.  You can use the drag and drop feature to arrange the pictures.  Other slide show features enable you to set the time interval each slide is displayed, to pause the show, to move to the previous and next pictures, and to fast forward through pictures.  You can display the slide show on the full screen, or in the file/blowup pane only.

Steps In Making Slide Shows

1)	Prepare corrected pictures to be incorporated into a slide show.

2)	Create your slide show.

3)	You may set times for slides.

4)	You may set up to run the slide show from your desktop.

5)	You may combine and copy slide shows.


Preparing Corrected Pictures
For A Slide Show

When you have made corrections to pictures that you intend to include in a slide show, it is recommended that you prepare these pictures as described below.

To Prepare Corrected Pictures For Use In A Slide Show

1)	Make corrections to your pictures, using prepared scripts or basic editing functions.  Apply corrections to your scripts.

2)	Put pictures for the slide show on the thumbnail pane.

3)	Create a new folder to contain slide show pictures.

4)	In dPhoto, select the new folder in the folder pane (the file pane will show that this is an empty folder).

5)	Choose Select All from the Select menu.  All pictures on the thumbnail pane are selected.

6)	Copy the selected pictures.  This creates copies of your pictures in the new folder; the thumbnails now refer to these copies.

7)	From the File menu, select Save Selected As.

8)	At the Save Options dialog, select Run Scripts & Save in the Script Options section, Save Rotations/Flips, and Save To Original in the Save Options section (remember you are working with copies of your originals).

9)	Left-click Save.  Pictures for your slide show are prepared and in their own folder.


Creating Slide Shows

To Create A Slide Show

1)	Make sure any corrected slides are prepared for use in a slide show (see PREPARING CORRECTED PICTURES FOR A SLIDE SHOW above).

2)	Put the slide show pictures on the thumbnail pane, using Pick Selected Files and Pick/Append Selected Files.

3)	Drag and drop pictures to arrange them in the desired order.

4)	Rotate pictures to the correct orientation, using the Rotate functions.

5)	Select slide show options, if desired:

To set the display interval time for each slide:  Select Display Interval from the Slides menu.  The initial interval is 2 seconds.  The display interval sets the time each slide is displayed when the show is running.  (You may also set times for individual slides using the Set Slide Times feature described below.)

To display show in file/blowup pane rather than in full window:  At the Slides menu, turn off the Display Full Window option (which is initially selected).

To show slides in continuous display:  At the Slides menu, select Continuous Display for a continuous display of slides; when the last slide is reached, the show begins again from the first slide.  This option is initially unselected.

6)	Save your slide show using one of the following options.

To save all pictures on the thumbnail pane as a slide show:  Select Save Slide Show (all)... from the Slides menu.

OR,

To select pictures for slide show:  If you wish to select pictures to be included in a slide show, select the pictures on the thumbnail pane; then select Save Slide Show (selected)... from the Slides menu.

The Save Slide Show dialog appears.

7)	To select a folder to contain the slide show:  From the folder pane to the left, select a folder to contain your slide show(s).  NOTE:  At the Save Slide Show dialog, you are saving the slide show file itself, which should be in the same folder as the slide pictures it contains.

To change the wildcard specification:  At the bottom of the dialog is shown the wildcard specification which governs which files are shown in the file pane.  Initially, it is *.DPS.  You may enter another specification in this text box, or Left-click the down arrow to select from the dropdown list.

To overwrite or edit a slide show name:  You may wish to overwrite an existing slide show, or edit an existing slide show name.  To do so, select a slide show from the file pane at the right.  The name of the selected show appears at the bottom right of the dialog.  You can overwrite this show, or edit its name.

To enter a name for your slide show:  In the bottom right text box, enter a name for your slide show.

To complete the save operation:  Left-click OK to save your slide show.

8)	To test the slide show, select Start Slide Show from the Slides menu.  If you make changes after running the slide show, be sure to use the save function again to keep the changes.

To Set Times For Slides

1)	Select pictures on thumbnail for which you may wish to set times.  (If no pictures are selected, all are available for time setting.

2)	Select Set Slide Times... from the Slides menu.  The Set Slide Times dialog appears.

3)	Left-click in the Slide Time (sec.) column to enter a time for the displayed slide in decimal seconds.  NOTE:  You can leave entries blank; the default display interval is used for these slides.

NOTE:  To set a certain display time for all slides, use the Display Interval feature on the Slides menu.  Then use Set Slide Times to lengthen or shorten display times for particular slides.


Running Slide Shows

You can run slide shows from within dPhoto, or start them from the desktop.

To Run A Slide Show

1)	With no pictures loaded onto the thumbnail pane, Left-click Start Slide Show on the toolbar.

OR

Select Open Slide Show... from the Slides menu.

The Open Slide Show dialog appears.

2)	Select the desired slide show.

To select a folder:  From the folder pane to the left, select the folder which contains your slide show(s).

To change the wildcard specification:  At the bottom of the dialog is shown the wildcard specification which governs which files are shown in the file pane.  Initially, it is *.dps.  You may enter another specification in this text box, or Left-click the down arrow to select from the dropdown list.

To select a slide show:  From the file pane at the right, select the slide show you wish to open.  The name of the selected show appears at the bottom right of the dialog (NOTE: this name cannot be edited).  Left-click OK to open this slide show.  The slide show is loaded into the thumbnail pane; its name appears on the title bar.

3)	You may select slide show options as described in TO CREATE A SLIDE SHOW above.  NOTE: These options will override any options previously chosen, for the current slide show run; if you wish to save the new options with the slide show, use the save function on the Slides menu.

4)	Left-click Start Slide Show on the toolbar.  The slide show begins in Pause.  Press the Play/Pause button on the dPhoto Slide Show bar to begin running the show.  The show is displayed in the entire window (unless the Display Full Window option is off).

5)	The following functions are available on the Slide Show toolbar:

Left-click the Play/Pause button to resume slide show, if paused.  OR  Left-click to pause on a slide;  Left-click again to resume show.

Stop slide show; return to dPhoto main window.

Go to previous picture.

Go to next picture.

Select/unselect current slide

Slide # of #	Left-drag and release within this bar to select a slide by its number; normally used in Pause mode.  You may use this bar to begin show again, by going to the first slide.

6)	To stop the slide show and return to the dPhoto main window, Left-click Stop on the main toolbar or the Slide Show toolbar.

To Start A Slide Show From The Desktop

1)	On your desktop, Right-click on the dPhoto shortcut, and select Properties.

2)	On the target line, after the .EXE file designation, add a space, then enter the path to the slide show file, including the file name.  Left-click OK.

3)	Select the new slide show shortcut, then Left-click on its name.  Enter a new name for the shortcut, and press [Enter].

4)	To start the slide show, double-click on the slide show shortcut.  This starts dPhoto and immediately begins the slide show, in Play mode.


Combining And Copying Slide Shows

To Combine Slide Shows

1)	Open the first slide show, by selecting Open Slide Show... from the Slides menu.

2)	Select Append Slide Show... from the Slides menu.  Select a slide show to append to the first slide show.

3)	You may continue to append slide shows until done.

To Copy A Slide Show

1)	Open the slide show you wish to copy.

2)	To copy all slides in slide show:  Select Copy Slide Show (all)... from the Slides menu.

OR

To copy selected slides in slide show:  Select the slides you wish to copy.  Select Copy Slide Show (selected)... from the Slides menu.

3)	At the Copy Slide Show As dialog, enter a name for the slide show.  NOTE: If you don’t add an .ext extension to your name, .DPS will be added automatically.  Left-click OK.

4)	When you return to the dPhoto main screen, the newly created slide show is displayed.

Pictures in the new slide show are named as follows:

SS001-former_filename.JPG,

SS002-former_filename.JPG, etc.

where former_filename is the name of the original slide show.  Note that these names sort correctly according to the slide show order.

NOTE:  Unlike the Save Slide Show As function, which simply creates a slide show file with pointers to the pictures, the Copy Slide Show function actually creates duplicates of the picture files in the specified location.  This enables you, for example, to collect pictures in one location in order to make a CD of the pictures.


VBA Intrinsic Functions

The following are intrinsic functions, that is, they are built into dPhoto programming functionality.  These intrinsic functions can be used in constructing formulas for the purpose of renaming picture files or defining file data content for printing.  These intrinsic functions are similar to those found in Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications 6 (they are a subset of VBA 6), and work similarly except where noted.  Refer to a Microsoft Visual Basic or Microsoft Access Reference Manual for a more complete description of these functions.  We also recommend VB & VBA In A Nutshell by Paul Lomax, published by O’Reilly & Associates, Inc., Sebastopol CA.

Starred functions are not found in VBA 6 and are additional functionality offered within dPhoto.

String Functions

Function Name	Description

Asc, AscB, AscW	Returns a variant number representing the ANSI character of the first character of a string

Chr, ChrB, ChrW	Returns a variant string containing the character associated with the specified character code

Filter	Returns an array of strings matching (or not) a specified value

FirstLikeBegin*	Returns begin position of first instance of pattern in string

FirstLikeEnd*	Returns end position of first instance of pattern in string

LastLikeBegin*	Returns begin position of last instance of pattern in string

LastLikeEnd*	Returns end position of last instance of pattern in string

Format	Returns a variant string formatted to a given specification

InStr, InstrB	Returns the position of the first occurrence of one string within another

InstrRev	Returns the position of the first occurrence of one string within another, searching from the end of the string

Join	Returns a string constructed by concatenating an array of values with a given separator

LCase	Returns a variant string converted to lowercase

Left, LeftB	Returns a variant string containing the leftmost n characters of a string

Len, LenB	Returns the length of a given string

LTrim	Returns a variant string with any leading spaces removed

Mid, MidB	Returns a variant substring containing a specified number of characters

Mid, MidB Statement	Replaces a section of string with characters from another string

Replace	Returns a string where a specified value has been replaced with another given value

Right, RightB	Returns a variant string containing the rightmost n characters of a string

Round	Rounds a given number to a given number of decimal places; returns same data type as the given number

RTrim	Returns a variant string with any trailing spaces removed

Scan*	Returns the position of the first occurrence in the first string of any character in the second string

ScanRev*	Returns the position of the first occurrence in the first string of any character in the second string; scans from end of first string toward beginning

Space	Returns a variant string consisting of the specified number of spaces

Span*	Returns the position of the first occurrence in the first string of any character not in the second string

SpanRev*	Returns the position of the first occurrence in the first string of any character not in the second string; spans from end of first string toward beginning

Split	Returns an array of values derived from a single string and a specified separator

StrComp	Returns the result of a comparison of two strings

StrConv	Returns a String converted as specified

String	Returns a variant string containing a repeated character

StrReverse	Returns the reverse of a string

Trim	Returns a variant string with both leading and trailing spaces removed

UCase	Returns a variant string converted to uppercase

*Not in VBA; see fuller explanations and examples of these functions below.

FirstLikeBegin  This function returns the beginning position of the first instance (on or after Start) of Pattern in String.  Returns 0 for failure to find instance of Pattern.

Syntax

FirstLikeBegin(String, Pattern[, Start])

Note: If Start is not entered, 1 is assumed.  Pattern may contain wildcards.

Example

FirstLikeBegin(“abcdefghi”,”d*f”) returns 4.

FirstLikeEnd  This function returns the ending position of the first instance (on or after Start) of Pattern in String.  Returns 0 for failure to find instance of Pattern.

Syntax

FirstLikeEnd(String, Pattern[, Start])

Note: If Start is not entered, 1 is assumed.  Pattern may contain wildcards.

Example

FirstLikeEnd(“abcdefghidefj”,”d*f”,5) returns 12.

LastLikeBegin  This function returns the beginning position of the last instance (on or before Start) of Pattern in String.  Returns 0 for failure to find instance of Pattern.

Syntax

LastLikeBegin(String, Pattern[, Start])

Note: If Start is not entered, Len(String) is assumed.  Pattern may contain wildcards.

Example

LastLikeBegin(“abcdefghidefj”,”d*f”) returns 10.

LastLikeEnd  This function returns the ending position of the last instance (on or before Start) of Pattern in String.  Returns 0 for failure to find instance of Pattern.

Syntax

LastLikeEnd(String, Pattern[, Start])

Note: If Start is not entered, Len(String) is assumed.  Pattern may contain wildcards.

Example

LastLikeEnd(“abcdefghidefj”,”d*f”,11) returns 6.

Scan Function   This function returns the position of the first occurrence in the first string of any character in the second string.  Returns 0 for failure (i.e. none of the characters from Start_Position onward in the first string are in the second string), or an integer specifying position.

Syntax

Scan (Scan_In_String,Scan_For_Set[,Start_Position])

Note: If Start_Position is not entered, 1 is assumed.

Example

Scan (“abcdefghijk”,”def”,2) returns 4.

ScanRev Function   This function returns the position of the first occurrence in the first string of any character in the second string; scans from end of first string toward beginning.  Returns 0 for failure (i.e. none of the characters from Start_Position backward in the first string are in the second string), or an integer specifying position.

Syntax

ScanRev (Scan_In_String,Scan_For_Set[,Start_Position])

Note: If Start_Position is not entered, length of first string is assumed.

Example

ScanRev (“abcdefghijk”,”def”) returns 6.

Span Function   This function returns the position of the first occurrence in the first string of any character not in the second string.  Returns 0 for failure (i.e. all characters from Start_Position onward in the first string are also in the second string), or an integer specifying position.

Syntax

Span (Span_In_String,Span_For_Set[,Start_Position])

Note: If Start_Position is not entered, 1 is assumed.

Example

Span (“abcdefghijk”,”def”,4) returns 7.

SpanRev   This function returns the position of the first occurrence in the first string of any character not in the second string; spans from end of first string toward beginning.  Returns 0 for failure (i.e. all characters from Start_Position backward in the first string are also in the second string), or an integer specifying position.

Syntax

SpanRev (Span_In_String,Span_For_Set[,Start_Position])

Note: If Start_Position is not entered, length of first string is assumed.

Example

SpanRev (“abcdefghijk”,”def”,6) returns 3

Format Functions

Function Name	Description

Format 	Returns a string variant formatted to a given specification

FormatCurrency	Returns a string variant formatted using the currency settings for the current locale

FormatDateTime	Returns a string variant formatted using the date settings for the current locale

FormatNumber	Returns a numeric variant formatted to a given specification

FormatPercent	Returns a numeric variant formatted using the “%” symbol

Round	Rounds a given number to a given number of decimal places; returns same data type as the given number

Array Functions

Function Name	Description

Array	Returns a variant array consisting of the arguments passed into the function

ASort*	Sorts all or part of an array in dictionary order, ascending or descending

ASortLen*	Sorts all or part of an array, first by length; then within lengths, sorts in dictionary order, ascending or descending

Erase	Reinitializes the elements of fixed-size arrays and releases dynamic-array storage space

IsArray	Tests whether a variable is an array

LBound	Returns a Long integer which indicates the lower limit of a specified dimension of an array.  The lower bound is the smallest subscript you can access within the specified dimension of the specified array.

Match*	Returns the index of the element in an array that meets the match conditions

ReDim [Preserve]	Resizes dynamic array variable

UBound	Returns a Long integer which indicates the upper limit of a specified dimension of an array.  The upper bound is the largest subscript you can access within the specified dimension of the specified array.

*Not in VBA; see fuller explanations below

ASort   Sorts all or part of an array in dictionary order, ascending or descending, for example, A AA AB B.  The default values are: Sort_Descending is FALSE; Start_Element is 1; and Element_Count is the total number of items in the array.

Syntax

ASort(Array_To_Sort[,Sort_Descending[,Start_Element[,Element_Count]]])

ASortLen   Sorts all or part of an array, first by length; then within lengths, sorts in dictionary order, ascending or descending.  For example: A B AA AB.  The default values are: Sort_Descending is FALSE; Start_Element is 1; and Element_Count is the total number of items in the array.

Syntax

ASortLen(Array_To_Sort[,Sort_Descending[,Start_Element[,Element_Count]]])

Match   This function returns the index of the element in an array that meets the match conditions (Match_Mode); if the element (Lookup_Value) is not found in the array, -1 is returned.  For Match_Mode: 1 (the default if no value is entered) finds the largest value less than or equal to Lookup_Value; 0 finds the first value exactly equal; and -1 finds the smallest value greater than or equal to Lookup_Value.

Syntax

Match(Lookup_Value,Lookup_In_Array[,Match_Mode])

Date Type Conversion Functions

Function Name	Description

CBool	Returns a Boolean data type

CByte	Returns a Byte data type

CDate	Returns a Date data type

CDbl	Returns a Double data type

CInt	Returns an Integer data type

CLng	Returns a Long data type

CSng	Returns a Single data type

CStr	Returns a String data type

Fix	Returns an Integer portion of number

Hex	Returns a hexadecimal representation of a number as a variant

Int	Returns the integer portion of a number

Oct	Returns an octal representation of a number as a variant

Str	Returns a variant of subtype String representing number; converts number from a numeric to a string

Val	Returns the numbers contained in a string as a numeric value of appropriate type

Date And Time Functions

Function Name	Description

Date	Returns the current system date as a date

DateAdd	Returns the result of a date/time addition or subtraction calculation

DateDiff	Returns the difference between two dates

DatePart	Returns the part of the date requested

DateSerial	Returns a date from an expression containing month, day, and year

DateValue	Returns a date from a representation of a date

Day	Returns a number representing the day of the month

Hour	Returns a number representing the hour of the day

Minute	Returns a number representing the minute of the hour

Month	Returns a number representing the month of the year

MonthName	Returns the name of the month for a given date

Now	Returns the current system time

Second	Returns a number representing the second of the time

Time	Returns or sets the current system time as a variant

Timer	Returns a Single representing the number of seconds elapsed since midnight

TimeSerial	Returns a representation of a given hour, minute, and second

TimeValue	Returns a time value from a string representation of a time

Weekday	Returns a number representing the day of the week

Year	Returns a number representing the year in a date expression

File Functions

Function Name	Description

CurDir[(drive)]	Returns a string representing the current path.

Dir[(pathname[, attributes])]	Returns a String representing the name of a file, directory, or folder that matches a specified pattern or file attribute, or the volume label of a drive. Dir supports the use of multiple character (*) and single character (?) wildcards to specify multiple files.

FileDateTime(pathname)	Returns a date that indicates the date and time when a file was created or last modified.

FileLen(pathname)	Returns a Long specifying the length of a file in bytes.

GetAttr(pathname)	Returns an Integer representing the attributes of a file, directory, or folder.

Information Functions

Function Name	Description

IsArray	Returns True is a variable is an array

IsDate	Returns True if an expression can be converted to a date

IsEmpty	Returns True if a variant variable has not been initialized

IsNull	Returns True is an expression evaluates to Null

IsNumeric	Returns True if an expression can be evaluated as a number

TypeName	Returns a string containing the name of the data type of a variable

VarType	Returns a number representing the data subtype of a variant variable

Interaction Functions

Function Name	Description

Beep	Sounds a note through the computer’s speaker

Environ	Returns the string associated with an operating system environment variable

GetAllSettings	Returns a list of key settings and their respective values (originally created with SaveSetting) from an application’s entry in the Windows registry

GetSetting	Returns a key setting value from an application’s entry in the Window registry

IIf	Returns one of two values based on a Boolean expression

InputBox	Returns user input from a simple dialog box

MsgBox	Returns the user selection of a choice of buttons on a simple message box

Partition	Returns a string indicating where a number occurs within a calculated series of ranges

SelectBox*	Returns user selection from a simple selection dialog

*Not in VBA; see explanation below.

SelectBox   This function returns a user selection from a simple selection dialog.  Title is what appears on title bar.  Prompt enables you to specify a prompt for the user.  List is a list of the possible values, as a variant array (all legal values); Default is optional, and specifies a default value which is returned unless another value is selected, or unless the user cancels.

Syntax

SelectBox (Title, Prompt, List[, Default])

Math Functions

Function Name	Description

Abs	Returns the absolute value of a given number

Atn	Returns the arctangent of a number

Cos	Returns the cosine of an angle

Exp	Returns the base of a natural logarighm raised to a power

Fix	Returns an Integer portion of number

Int	Returns the integer portion of a number

Log	Returns the natural logarithm of a number

Max*	Returns the maximum of a series of up to 127 arguments

Min*	Returns the minimum of a series of up to 127 arguments

Randomize	Initializes the random-number generator

Rnd	Returns a Single containing a random number

Round	Rounds a given number to a given number of decimal places; returns same data type as the given number

Sgn	Returns an integer indicating the sign of a number

Sin	Returns the sine of an angle

Sqr	Returns the square root of a number

Tan	Returns the tangent of an angle

*Not in VBA

Constants

vbSunday

vbMonday

vbTuesday

vbWednesday

vbThursday

vbFriday

vbSaturday

vbUseSystem

vbCr

vbCrLf

vbLf

vbNullChar

vbTab

vbFalse

vbTrue

Pi

vbEmpty

vbNull

vbInteger

vbLong

vbSingle

vbDouble

vbCurrency

vbDate

vbString

vbObject

vbError

vbBoolean

vbVariant

vbDataObject

vbDecimal

vbByte

vbArray

vbBinaryCompare

vbTextCompare

vbFirstJan1

vbFirstFourDays

vbFirstFullWeek

vbOKOnly

vbOKCancel

vbAbortRetryIgnore

vbYesNoCancel

vbYesNo

vbRetryCancel

vbCritical

vbQuestion

vbExclamation

vbInformation

vbDefaultButton1

vbDefaultButton2

vbDefaultButton3

vbDefaultButton4

vbApplicationModal

vbSystemModal

vbMsgBoxHelpButton

VbMsgBoxSetForeground

vbMsgBoxRight

vbMsgBoxRtlReading

vbOK

vbCancel

vbAbort

vbRetry

vbIgnore

vbYes

vbNo

vbNormal

vbReadOnly

vbHidden

VbSystem

vbVolume

vbDirectory

vbUpperCase

vbLowerCase

vbProperCase

vbWide

vbNarrow

vbKatakana

vbHiragana

vbUnicode

vbFromUnicode

Operators  Operators are evaluated in the following order: Arithmetic, String, Comparison, Logical.  Within categories, they are evaluated in the order below (/ and * have no order of precedence between the two; nor do + and -).  You may use parentheses to override the order of precedence.

Operator	Description

Arithmetic

^	Raise to a power

*	Multiply

/	Divide real numbers

\	Divide integers

Mod	Remainder after integer division

-	Subtract

+	Addition

String

&	Concatenation

Like	Compares first string and second string (which can contain wildcards) for matching; returns True or False.

Comparison

=	Equals

<>	Not equal to

<	Less than

>	Greater than

<=	Less than or equal to

>=	Greater than or equal to

Logical

Not	Performs logical negation on a single expression.

And	Performs logical conjunction; that is, it only returns True if both expression1 and expression2 evaluate to True.

Or	Performs logical disjunction; that is, if either expression1 and/or expression2 evaluates to true, the result is True.

Xor	Performs logical exclusion, which is the converse of Eqv.

Eqv	Performs logical equivalence; that is, it determines whether the value of two expressions is the same.

Imp	Performs logical implication.


Digital Darkroom Formulary

Guidelines For Adjusting Skin Tones

As a rule, Caucasian skin should have Hue centering around 20, Saturation centering around 85, and Value centering around 215.  Caucasian lips have Hue centered around 13, Saturation centered around 135, and Value centered around 200.  For tan skin, add to the Hue (shift it toward yellow), and decrease Value to darken skin.  For African-American and Asian skin, Hue is shifted a little toward yellow, with a higher Saturation and lower Value.

Caucasians

in some shadow	in some light	Lips

Hue	13 - 24	15 - 24	9 - 18

Saturation	72 - 131	79 - 109	111 - 157

Value	187 - 244	2 - 234	169 - 223

African-Americans And Asians

African-Americans	Asians

Hue	20 - 30	20 - 30

Saturation	104 - 149	92 - 117

Value	149 - 212	198 - 213

Using Paint (Wand Dialog) To Achieve Skin Tone Effects

Because human skin for any given individual varies little in hue, a lot in saturation, and somewhat in value, the recommended settings to select any kind of skin color (Caucasian, African-American, Asian, and so on) are a Hue Tolerance of 12, Saturation Tolerance of 64, and Value Tolerance of 32.

Next, sample an area of skin tone that looks right, and set paint weight settings as follows:  Hue of 6%, Saturation of 50%, and Value from 12% to 24%.  This will reduce the variability of skin, giving a smoother tone.

You can also achieve an alabaster or ivory look by using a whiter paint (decrease Saturation and increase Value of your paint).  Use higher Hue and Value weights.  For a fashion photo effect, try Hue weight of 100%, Saturation of 50% to 75%, and Value of 0%.

Producing Toned Prints Using Paint (Wand Dialog)

From the Paint dialog, Left-click on the Paint Sample patch to access the Color Pick dialog.  Choose a tone by Left-clicking the large color area or use the slider on the rainbow palette.  For sepia, look for a dark orange to yellow tone.  For blue toning, use a dark blue.  At the Paint dialog, Left-click the Select Entire Picture button.  Set paint weights as follows:  Hue of 100%, Saturation 3% to 6%, and Value to 0%.